Trying to slim down my installation

[Bill Crawford]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
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> This also reduces effectivness of yum-presto as deltas will not
> apply if some package files could not be found on a disk.  There are
> packages which will be complete, so they will not suffer from that,
> but this is another trade-off.


Just a thought, but, can't the cached packages (I rarely clean the yum 
cache, for various reasons, mostly to make downgrading in the event of 
broken stuff easier) be used in place of the installed files?