trimming down Fedora installed size

Marius A marius1439 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 07:42:36 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:57 PM, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 12:37 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Marius A <marius1439 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 1. remove /usr/share/docs
> >
> > Try this in /etc/rpm/macros.whatever:
> >     %_excludedocs 1
>
>  For recent yum it's significantly better to do:
>
> yum fs filter nodocs
>


>
> > Try this in /etc/rpm/macros.whatever:
> >     %_install_langs en
>
>  Dito. to get rid of extra languages by:
>
> yum fs filter langs en
>
> ...then you can yum fs refilter / yum fs refilter-cleanup.
>

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
On Fedora 21, any way to apply these before installing to SDD from live usb
image? e.g. open terminal, run fs filter's, then start the install?

This thread has spawned good discussions tough :)
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