Why do I need mDNSResponder/howl?
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Fri Jan 14 17:35:11 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:27 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> On an example, the size of installed Core+Base system (both number of
> RPMs installed, and disk space needed) has doubled since Red Hat 7.3.
> 99% of additional stuff is nothing but garbage that should be removed
> from Core and Base groups. I've filled bug report on bugzilla last
> November, if anybody would like to follow up:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139364
>
> There's also another thing tackled in that bug report. Once upon a
> time, it was possible to install only Core group (by doing %packages
> --no-base in kickstart config file). It seems that nowdays the option
> is ignored. As if somebody wants to force us to have bloated systems...
>
Hey, Aleksandar:
Please, pretty please... could you read through the "Bare-Bones Server
HOWTO" on Simpaticus.com [1] and give me your feedback on the package
removal suggestions?
[1] http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/barebones-server-howto.php
As I've noted recently, I am trying to create a comps.xml file for FC4
that will substantially reduce the Minimal install and eliminate all of
these packages. I can use all the help I can get! Overall I've managed
to eliminate nearly 120 packages from FC3's minimal install, which means
almost 200MB of space recovered.
But there may be things I missed, and there may be more ways to improve,
and besides, I still don't really understand the comps.xml file all that
well. :-)
Cheers,
--
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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