Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On a tangent to this... whats the easiest way to get a feel of which
packages I'm not using on my fedora install? Is there anytihng more
clever than doing an exhaustive check of atimes on all the files owned
by rpm packages and comparing that to the package install time?
After I do a fresh install, I usually just go through the "rpm -qa"
list and start trying "rpm -e" on stuff that I believe I don't use,
and see when I get a dependency on something that I know I *do* use.
Which is distressingly often. There is just an amazing amount of
dependency clutter in there.
For example: I don't use Windows, ever. This means I don't use Samba.
But I can't uninstall it, because Nautilus depends on it. Now, I don't
use Nautilus either, but I can't just uninstall *that*, because
control-center depends on it, which I *do* use.
Likewise, I don't own a printer and haven't in years, but I often find
myself unable to delete the zillions of printer drivers without also
deleting Ghostscript and half of Gnome or something.
If space is tight, the first thing I do is nuke everything except en_US
under /usr/share/locale/ and /usr/lib/locale/ -- since I don't happen to
speak 113 different languages, that's more than 320MB of pure waste.
Blowing away /usr/share/doc/ is also helpful; it's huge, and every file
in there is Googlable.
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