Hey everyone,
Fairly new to EL distros, ran Debian branches years ago but then stopped as it was just a hobby and I had no time. 
Got back in, and decided to give this side of things a go.
Now this is relevant, because I originally installed RHEL9, but then ran the almalinux-deploy tool to move over … it took some convincing, but we made it, and it’s been running great since.
Recently I was playing with some code dev, which I pulled the plug on and went to clean up the various packages I’d installed and mucked about with. Found repoquery --userinstalled and dnf autoremove commands, and figured this would be easy!
BUT!
I can easily see that dnf doesn’t have all the right associations due to the conversion from RHEL to Alma, as when I run repoquery --userinstalled I see packages such as selinux-policy-targeted, kernel-core, cockpit, etc. Now I’m hesitant with the autoremove as if the associations are wrong and they’re actually important I’d rather not spend next weekend rebuilding my server.
Wondering if someone more experienced with EL can take a quick look over this list, and mention if anything I need to keep for a (nearly) default CLI-only install? These first part are the ones in particular I’m hesitant about, mainly for cockpit (doesn’t that use libvirt? Or different libvirt packages?)
libvirt-daemon x86_64 9.5.0-7.2.el9_3.alma.1 @appstream 585 k
libvirt-daemon-lock x86_64 9.5.0-7.2.el9_3.alma.1 @appstream 99 k
libvirt-daemon-plugin-lockd x86_64 9.5.0-7.2.el9_3.alma.1 @appstream 31 k
libvirt-daemon-proxy x86_64 9.5.0-7.2.el9_3.alma.1 @appstream 583 k
openssl-pkcs11 x86_64 0.4.11-7.el9 @baseos 198 k
As for the rest, I don’t use python for anything (and I don’t think MySQL and nginx do either) so that should be all good to go, and I can’t see why anything would need nmap… as for the compressor, I’ve not heard of it before so I have no idea if it’s used by something else or not.
nmap-ncat x86_64 3:7.92-1.el9 @appstream 469 k
openldap-compat x86_64 2.6.3-1.el9 @baseos 59 k
python3-cffi x86_64 1.14.5-5.el9 @baseos 1.0 M
python3-cryptography x86_64 36.0.1-4.el9 @baseos 4.5 M
python3-dns noarch 2.3.0-2.el9 @baseos 2.0 M
python3-ldb x86_64 2.7.2-2.el9 @baseos 136 k
python3-packaging noarch 20.9-5.el9 @appstream 248 k
python3-ply noarch 3.11-14.el9 @baseos 430 k
python3-pycparser noarch 2.20-6.el9 @baseos 745 k
python3-resolvelib noarch 0.5.4-5.el9 @appstream 66 k
python3-samba x86_64 4.18.6-102.el9_3.alma.1 @baseos 19 M
python3-talloc x86_64 2.4.0-2.el9 @baseos 36 k
python3-tdb x86_64 1.4.8-2.el9 @baseos 45 k
python3-tevent x86_64 0.14.1-2.el9 @baseos 32 k
zstd x86_64 1.5.1-2.el9 @baseos 1.8 M
Anyway, thanks in advance!
-Philip