[Fedora-livecd-list] [SCRIPT] simple tool for finding large removable packages

[Jane Dogalt]

I don't know if this will help anyone, but here is a script I wrote/use
to help me find which packages I might want to remove from a livecd
spin. 

Basically it reverse sorts the installed packages by size, and gives
you the package info, as well as which/how-many packages depend on it
(and their size).

I.e. from an example run on a system, here is the first few lines of
output-  (and the thing it tells me immediately is that gimp-help is
huge, nothing depends on it, and it's probably the first candidate for
removal.  Of course, what I'd like it to also tell me is that gimp-help
has something to do with an image manipulation program, but the rpm
desc is a little deficient in that regard IMO)

========================================================================
(203.48MB) openoffice.org-core is NOT removable
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number of packages that are dependent: 7
biggest deps are 
openoffice.org-calc(14.81MB) 
openoffice.org-writer(5.78MB) 
openoffice.org-impress(4.28MB) 

------------------------------------------------------------------------
package description: openoffice.org-core-2.0.2-5.12.2 

core libraries and support files for openoffice.org
========================================================================



========================================================================
(64.05MB) gimp-help is removable
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package description: gimp-help-2-0.1.0.10.0.fc5.1 

The GIMP User Manual is a newly written User Manual for the GIMP.
========================================================================



========================================================================
(61.25MB) glibc-common is NOT removable
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number of packages that are dependent: 2
biggest deps are 
glibc(11.66MB) 
redhat-lsb(.02MB) 

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package description: glibc-common-2.4-8 
...
...
and so on...  (consider the script GPL)


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