I got used to apt purge. It’s nice to be able to easily wipe all associated data after an uninstall.
Any way to track down all unwanted directories and files across my system?
F43 Gnome
Thank you!
There is no correspondent to apt purge with dnf AFAIK. Most of the files installed with dnf install are also removed with dnf uninstall, except for the users’ config files in their home directories.
You have the dnf autoremove command to uninstall unneeded dependencies.
Hello! Thank you. So only the Home folder is affected? Then, it’s not a problem. Was worried about remains in system directories.
You can check that yourself: before removing a package, check the installed files with:
rpm -ql <package_name>
After removal, you can verify if any of those files is still on the system. Normally they should be gone.
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