On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:27 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > On an example, the size of installed Core+Base system (both number of > RPMs installed, and disk space needed) has doubled since Red Hat 7.3. > 99% of additional stuff is nothing but garbage that should be removed > from Core and Base groups. I've filled bug report on bugzilla last > November, if anybody would like to follow up: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139364 > > There's also another thing tackled in that bug report. Once upon a > time, it was possible to install only Core group (by doing %packages > --no-base in kickstart config file). It seems that nowdays the option > is ignored. As if somebody wants to force us to have bloated systems... > Hey, Aleksandar: Please, pretty please... could you read through the "Bare-Bones Server HOWTO" on Simpaticus.com [1] and give me your feedback on the package removal suggestions? [1] http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/barebones-server-howto.php As I've noted recently, I am trying to create a comps.xml file for FC4 that will substantially reduce the Minimal install and eliminate all of these packages. I can use all the help I can get! Overall I've managed to eliminate nearly 120 packages from FC3's minimal install, which means almost 200MB of space recovered. But there may be things I missed, and there may be more ways to improve, and besides, I still don't really understand the comps.xml file all that well. :-) Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
