Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

Craig Thompson wrote:

Thanks, Lamar. This is the type of helpful response I was looking for.

If anyone has any other practical "lists of junk" please post them.

My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused services which I run upon installation of a basic system, and it works well.

The more community input, the better, IMO.

<snip> Here's a thought: yum grouplist | awk '{if ($3 ~ /Groups/ ) { doit = ($1 ~ /Install/ ) ? 1 : 0;} if ( doit ) { print $0; }}'

This will name all the groups that are installed. if you see, say, "Office Suite and Productivity", you can do a yum remove @"Office Suite and Productivity"

mark