Am 15.02.2012 21:30, schrieb Craig Thompson:
I was working on archiving an old virtual server today and was reminded of
how much space is wasted by some of the default installations on CentOS. I
think this was a 5.x box.
Anyway, in /usr/lib/64 (and probably /usr/lib on non-64 systems),
Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, wait...
To cleanly uninstall unused software, one would need a list of what software
is ON the system which is unused. Doing a minimal install pretty much gives
you a system which no one can use. Doing the classic server
Craig Thompson wrote:
Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh,
wait...
To cleanly uninstall unused software, one would need a list of what
software is ON the system which is unused. Doing a minimal install
pretty much gives you a system which no one can use.
On 02/15/12 1:00 PM, Craig Thompson wrote:
Doing a minimal install pretty much gives you a system which no one can use.
Nowdays, I nearly always do a minimal install, then add the specific
packages I need...
on a recent C6 build for an archival file server, that consisted of...
|yum -y
On 02/15/12 1:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I agree. I just did a minimal install last week, and had all*kinds* of
grief trying to get networking working.
huh? I did a minimal install of C6 and it came up on DHCP right off the
bat. I don't even think I had to start sshd (at least, if I
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 03:30:56 PM Craig Thompson wrote:
Does anyone have an available script or list of commands for removing most or
all of these generally unused directories, packages or whatever they are?
Ok, here's a two-step process you can try:
1.) rpm -qf
John R Pierce wrote:
On 02/15/12 1:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I agree. I just did a minimal install last week, and had all*kinds* of
grief trying to get networking working.
huh? I did a minimal install of C6 and it came up on DHCP right off the
bat. I don't even think I had to start
Thanks, Lamar. This is the type of helpful response I was looking for.
If anyone has any other practical lists of junk please post them.
My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and remove
them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused services which I run upon
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:00:45 PM Craig Thompson wrote:
Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, wait...
To cleanly uninstall unused software, one would need a list of what
software is ON the system which is unused.
And one would need to define
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:13:23 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
There are indeed some packages that have a ridiculous set of dependencies.
I can't remember what it was - it's been months, but I wanted to install
some command line tool, and it wanted gnome installed.
This is one area 'build
Dear Craig,
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:58:40 -0500
Craig Thompson cthomp...@loganthompsonlaw.com wrote:
My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and
remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused services
which I run upon installation of a basic system, and
Craig Thompson wrote:
Thanks, Lamar. This is the type of helpful response I was looking for.
If anyone has any other practical lists of junk please post them.
My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and
remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused
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