Minimal install of FC3

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

>   2. What is the "comps" package? It's huge, and AFAICT nothing needs it
> or depends on it.

'yum group*' commands probably use it.

> 
>   3. I'm using "rpm -qa --queryformat %{SIZE}\t\t%{NAME}\n | less" to
> look for the larger packages. However, it's hard to read the numbers
> since they're left-justified and I cannot sort on size. Is there any way
> I can sort on size descending, or put the size figures into a column so
> I can right-justify them?

how about just using 'sort -n'?

rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | less

Satish