trimming down Fedora installed size

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Apr 9 20:41:21 UTC 2014



Am 09.04.2014 22:05, schrieb Billy Crook:
> I would like to see logic like this:
> manpage files don't get installed unless/until:
> 1) packagename-manpages is requested to be installed by the user.  that package would require the 'man' package.
> OR
> 2) package is installed AND man is installed.
> 
> Don't wan't the manpages taking up disk space?  remove the 'man' package and all manpages disappear.
> Don't use en_US and don't want to waste space on that either, remove the 'localization-en_US' package and its
> corresponding localizations of all installed packages will dispapear too

packages i build at my own have "package-manpages" for any man/doc parts
on all the servers i maintain they are not installed
it's enough to have them on *one* central admin server

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