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 "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.
I randomly selected one package "pango" and found it had about 200 dependencies and uninstalled it. Lucky? But I'm sure there are more.
And nowhere do I recall proposing a mass hysteria approach of "rm -R -f /" ...
Can you help in this? If so, I would welcome your input.
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am 15.02.2012 21:30, schrieb Craig Thompson:
I was working on archiving an old virtual server today and was reminded of how much space is wasted by some of the default installations on CentOS. I think this was a 5.x box.
Anyway, in /usr/lib/64 (and probably /usr/lib on non-64 systems), there were a lot of directories which have no bearing on a basic server. I saw firefox, openoffice and many, many other directories -- replete with enough files to seriously affect backup space over time.
Does anyone have an available script or list of commands for removing most or all of these "generally unused" directories, packages or whatever they are?
I found something a while back for shutting off unused services, but this seems to be a gaping hole in available archives.
Thanks.
CT
You are kidding, are you?
Uninstall unused / unnecessary software cleanly using using yum (or rpm). *Don't* randomly delete filesystem structures you think they are pointless or wasting harddrive space.
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