> I was taking a look around the RHN and notice something I hadn't seen
> before. I can browse a list of every package I have installed on my RH
> machines. To my amazement it was right at or over 500 installed packages.
> I
> thought my install was pretty clean. Turns out all kinds of stuff was
> installed, just not running. Well I went through them all and got the # of
> packages down to 414. Some things I knew could go like httpd and sendmail,
are you sure you want to get rid of your MTA? It can be a nice ting to have.
Say for your intrusion detection software, cron ... etc.
But if you feel like it go a head rpm -e glibc --nodeps
> and other I knew had to stay being used for the os itself. Then there were
> so many that were on the edge of whether they would be needed by any
> current
> software that has to be there I just left them to be same.
>
> So how many rpm packages does everyone else have installed on their RH
> HLDS
> boxes? Just wondering.
Box1$ rpm -qva | wc -l
548
Box2$ rpm -qva | wc -l
476
Box3$ rpm -qva | wc -l
551
I roll my own rpms from time to time. Box2 is a new install and haven't had
the chance to grow like the two others.
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marius
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