On 10/15/19 10:37 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 17:26 +0000,   sixpack13 wrote:
I guess you could
- remove all packages lower than F29 if you are currently on F29
I wouldn't do that without research.  Sometimes old packages will be
re-used with a new release, as there wasn't any need to recompile them.

Yes, research is required.  Especially in the event one may be using some of 
them.
I would not willy-nilly erase all of them.

But, reading the DNF man page:

Lists extras, that is packages installed on the system  that  are not available 
in any known repository.

And some cursory checks on an F30 system:

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info empathy
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:07 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:05:10 AM CST.
Error: No matching Packages to list

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info jpathwatch
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:37 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:05:10 AM CST.
Error: No matching Packages to list

Suggest some of them may not be available in the F30 repos.

But some of them are....

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info beignet
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:03 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:05:10 AM CST.
Installed Packages
Name         : beignet
Version      : 1.3.2
Release      : 5.fc29
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 19 M
Source       : beignet-1.3.2-5.fc29.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : fedora
Summary      : Open source implementation of the OpenCL for Intel GPUs
URL          : https://01.org/beignet/
License      : LGPLv2+
Description  : Beignet is an open source implementation of the OpenCL
             : specification - a generic compute oriented API. This code base
             : contains the code to run OpenCL programs on Intel GPUs which
             : basically defines and implements the OpenCL host functions 
required
             : to initialize the device, create the command queues, the kernels
             : and the programs and run them on the GPU.

 So, one wonders why that package showed up as "extra".

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