[CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Feb 3 06:42:25 UTC 2016


On 2/2/2016 10:29 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> redhat (centos) ships lot's of stuff. you don't really need to install
> *everything*  unless you have very specific needs..


I pretty much always install the 'minimal' ISO then install the specific 
packages I need with yum.

lots of reasons, not the least, yum updates run faster when it doesn't 
have to apply updates to 1000s of packages you're never using.



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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz




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