do I need all these packages?

[James Wilkinson]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> I've got FC3 running with no XWindows for a server machine.  I set it 
> up to play with the http, ftp and mail servers.  When I installed it 
> I tried to leave off everything that I didn't need but there appear 
> to be a lot of packages that got in that I don't want or can't use 
> because I don't have X.  The output from rpm -qa is below with some 
> of that packages marked with an *.  Those are the ones I don't think 
> I need or can't use.  I would appreciate any opinions on whether I 
> should keep them or if it is OK to rpm -e em.  If there are any other 
> packages that you think are not needed in a no X server please tell 
> me.

Do you have anything *not* installed via RPM? If not, then rpm -e will
tell you if there's a problem.
> *   fontconfig-2.2.3-5

On my system,
$ rpm -q --whatrequires fontconfig

qt-3.3.3-8
gimp-2.2.3-0.fc3.2
urw-fonts-2.2-6
bitmap-fonts-0.3-4
fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1
fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5
libgnomeui-2.8.0-1

You should be able to do a lot of this work yourself. If there are any
particular packages you aren't sure about, ask back.

James.

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