Call for a real Minimal install, remove the bloat!

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Mar 14 22:13:01 UTC 2004


On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:11:41PM +0100, Hans Eric Sandström wrote:
> These are the packages I removed after doing a minimal install:
> 
> # rpm -e apmd aspell aspell-en attr autofs comps dump gnupg hotplug
> isdn4k-utils jfsutils kudzu lftp libwvstreams lrzsz minicom nano parted
> pcmcia-cs rdate system-config-mouse system-config-network-tui setserial
> sendmail specspo star statserial up2date usbutils wireless-tools wget wvdial
> yp-tools ypbind yum irda-utils

hotplug is pretty much essential nowdays (even more so with 2.6.x) but
the others look like pruning candidates for some definition of minimal I
must admit





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