I don't know if this will help anyone, but here is a script I wrote/use to help me find which packages I might want to remove from a livecd spin.
Basically it reverse sorts the installed packages by size, and gives you the package info, as well as which/how-many packages depend on it (and their size). I.e. from an example run on a system, here is the first few lines of output- (and the thing it tells me immediately is that gimp-help is huge, nothing depends on it, and it's probably the first candidate for removal. Of course, what I'd like it to also tell me is that gimp-help has something to do with an image manipulation program, but the rpm desc is a little deficient in that regard IMO) ======================================================================== (203.48MB) openoffice.org-core is NOT removable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ number of packages that are dependent: 7 biggest deps are openoffice.org-calc(14.81MB) openoffice.org-writer(5.78MB) openoffice.org-impress(4.28MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package description: openoffice.org-core-2.0.2-5.12.2 core libraries and support files for openoffice.org ======================================================================== ======================================================================== (64.05MB) gimp-help is removable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package description: gimp-help-2-0.1.0.10.0.fc5.1 The GIMP User Manual is a newly written User Manual for the GIMP. ======================================================================== ======================================================================== (61.25MB) glibc-common is NOT removable ------------------------------------------------------------------------ number of packages that are dependent: 2 biggest deps are glibc(11.66MB) redhat-lsb(.02MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ package description: glibc-common-2.4-8 ... ... and so on... (consider the script GPL) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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