Getting rid of the pre-grub screen

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Nov 19 03:06:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:10:17AM -0000, Paul Grenyer wrote:
> >I would recommend only installating packages you absolutely require
> >and removing the rest to keep things manageable
> Too late. I just let up2date do the lot.

Not necessarily too late -- it's still good advice. If you don't need a
package (especially one that contains a daemon or network service, or a
setuid binary), uninstall it. You can always add it back if you need it
later.

-- 
Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>




More information about the users mailing list