only critical packages in minimal installation

[Paul Pianta]

Max Beerli wrote:

> I installed Fedora Core 2 and picked the Custom installation to pick 
> the least amount of packages. Upon issuing the "rpm -qa | less" 
> command I see a bunch of packages which I'm not sure I need or not 
> like "finger, ftp, procmail, rdate, rdist, rsh, talk, telnet" just to 
> name a few. Has anyone here figured out which are the critical 
> packages and which can be removed without causing any issues, ie. some 
> fedora scripts might need them for some reason?

You can have a look on the first cd at the comps.xml file to see what is 
categorized as 'minimal'.
The path is /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/base/comps.xml.

In that file you can check out the 'core', and 'base' groups - which 
seem to be 'essential' for any Fedora installation. IMHO - if you can do 
an rpm -e on the package after installation, and you don't get any 
dependency warnings - the package is not 'essential' and therefore 
should not be in 'core' or 'base'.

Anyhoo - good luck with it!

pantz

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