Re: further package removals/potential package removals

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Enrico Scholz wrote:

> Jamie Zawinski <jwz jwz org> writes:
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> > For example: I don't use Windows, ever.  This means I don't use Samba.
> > But I can't uninstall it, because Nautilus depends on it.  Now, I don't
> > use Nautilus either, but I can't just uninstall *that*, because
> > control-center depends on it, which I *do* use.
> >    
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> ACK; some packages should be split to avoid such dependencies. 'gnupg'
> (which brings 'perl' and 'openldap' into the game (additional 50MB)) and
> 'kernel' (which wastes 30MB and 6000 inodes of my /) are packages coming
> at first into my mind...
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>  

ACK ACK: packages should be split, dependencies (at least those that are 
automagically
generated, the majority these days) are not the problem.

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> > If space is tight, the first thing I do is nuke everything except en_US
> > under /usr/share/locale/ and /usr/lib/locale/
> >    
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> Just do 'echo "%_install_langs C:en" >>/etc/rpm/macros' and reinstall
> everything (as anaconda neither sets it on fresh installs nor honors it
> on upgrades).
>  

Yep.

And no matter what (fairly arcane and obscure) flaws there are
   %_netsharedpath /usr/share/doc
is at least as good a solution as
   cd /usr/share/doc
   rm -rf *
for preventing files from being installed in /usr/share/doc.

Assuming that is what you want to do.

73 de Jeff

> Enrico
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