CentOS - May 2008 - strip down install

What tactics would be recommended to start removing unneeded packages?

I have tried to graph dependences before and using hunches, is there a
better way?

-jason


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Jason Pyeron wrote:
> What tactics would be recommended to start removing unneeded packages?
> 
> I have tried to graph dependences before and using hunches, is there a
> better way?
The package yum-utils has some utilities to manage that -
package-cleanup for example can find duplicates or orphaned packages on
your system.

Cheers,

Ralph
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:51 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] strip down install
> 
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > What tactics would be recommended to start removing unneeded packages?
> >
> > I have tried to graph dependences before and using hunches, is there a
> > better way?
> 
> The package yum-utils has some utilities to manage that -
> package-cleanup for example can find duplicates or orphaned packages on
> your system.
Nice tool, but it always echos 'Loading "installonlyn" plugin'

Really annoying when package-cleanup --leaves --all -q | sort > /tmp/list
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ralph



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