Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:10 -0600, James Szinger wrote:

My typical approach is to run `package-cleanup --leaves --all` or `yum leaves` (might need software not on CentOS 8) and justify everything that is there. I have about 85 leaf packages on a CentOS 7 web server, so a minimal package set should be smaller. Experiment with a disposable VM so it is easy to recover from mistakes.

Thanks for this. I did a little searching and found this page:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-remove-orphaned-packages-on-centos-linux

It worked for me:

Get a list of orphaned packages:

$ package-cleanup --leaves

Remove them:

# yum remove `package-cleanup --leaves`

That's only if you're OK removing all of them.