Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev anandb@ripe.net wrote:

Hi folks,

After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them:

cronie-anacron (replaced with cronie-noanacron) alsa-firmware ivtv-firmware iwl*-firmware sssd-common (along with all packages that depended on it)

What other things do folk usually remove to make their installation smaller?

Usually it breaks down at this point because everyone has different things they want for their minimal install. Getting 3 people to agree on a minimal working set seems to be harder than doing a three body physics problem :).