Question: how to keep /var/lib/yum/plugins/local small?

[Steven Haigh]

On 09/15/2010 05:28 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 08:04 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> What plugins do you have installed? I only get:
>>
>> # pwd
>> /var/lib/yum
>> # du -hs *
>> 1.2M	history
>> 0	rpmdb-indexes
>> 4.0K	uuid
>> 9.0M	yumdb
>>
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> cd /var/lib/yum
> sudo du -hs *
> 4.6M	history
> 3.8G	plugins
> 296K	rpmdb-indexes
> 4.0K	uuid
> 19M	yumdb
>
> Installed yum plugins: yum-plugin-local (has not been installed
> explictly, but automatically!)
>

Hmmmm - I didn't get that plugin installed - nor is it really required 
unless you want it... Remove the plugin and you can probably remove the 
plugins directory completely with no loss of functionality...

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