Swupd history or snapshot feature

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Does swupd have a history or snapshot feature for rolling back?

I installed desktop-kde-apps and desktop-kde.

Dislike KDE more than I dislike Gnome, so I removed those two bundles, but other items such as digikam, yakuake, akonodi,etc still remain.

Thanks.

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Unfortunately swupd doesn’t currently have the ability to recursively remove bundles that were included as part of adding another bundle. You can see the conversation and +1 the issue here: Implement recursive removal option for bundle-remove · Issue #455 · clearlinux/swupd-client · GitHub

In the meantime, you can see the contents of the desktop-kde bundle with:cat /usr/share/clr-bundles/desktop-kde and there are a couple swupd bundle-list options which can help identify bundles that can be removed:

   -d, --deps=[BUNDLE]     List bundles included by BUNDLE
   -D, --has-dep=[BUNDLE]  List dependency tree of all bundles which have BUNDLE as a dependency
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Thanks, I’ve manually removed the unnecessary bundles.

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@puneetse
clr-bundles has a utility app that generates a dependency graph of all the bundles currently available.
Is it possible to have a script that only shows the dependencies of installed bundles on the current system?
And actually, dependency graph maybe an overkill. If I can have the result of topological sort of the installed bundles in terms of the number of packages depends on them, then I at least needs to know which bundle I shall try to remove first.

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A bit delayed, but I put in a feature request for this very thing on GitHub:

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