On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net>
wrote:>
> Hi folks,
>
> After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following
> packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them:
>
> cronie-anacron (replaced with cronie-noanacron)
> alsa-firmware
> ivtv-firmware
> iwl*-firmware
> sssd-common (along with all packages that depended on it)
>
> What other things do folk usually remove to make their installation
smaller?
>
Usually it breaks down at this point because everyone has different
things they want for their minimal install. Getting 3 people to agree
on a minimal working set seems to be harder than doing a three body
physics problem :).
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