Craig Thompson wrote:
Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, wait...
To "cleanly uninstall unused software," one would need a list of what software is ON the system which is unused. Doing a "minimal" install pretty much gives you a system which no one can use. Doing the classic
I agree. I just did a minimal install last week, and had all *kinds* of grief trying to get networking working.
"server" install loads a lot of this junk which no one ever uses. As someone opined on this list, "Why does CentOS install bluetooth packages???" I don't want it on my server. I'm trying to find out what the commonly UNUSED packages are so they can be removed.
Yup. For that matter, why would I want avahi running on a rackmount server that's hardwired for gigabit ethernet? But you get that, too, with "server".
I randomly selected one package "pango" and found it had about 200 dependencies and uninstalled it. Lucky? But I'm sure there are more.
There are indeed some packages that have a ridiculous set of dependencies. I can't remember what it was - it's been months, but I wanted to install some command line tool, and it wanted gnome installed. <snip> mark