devel packages

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Oct 14 01:31:19 UTC 2004



On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jason Dravet wrote:

> You are correct, I did select development packages because I need the c
> compiler for some of the software I download.  So just because I told the
> installer I need a c compiler, it decided to install all of the devel stuff.
> Hmmm.  I guess that makes sense.  I will remove some of the other devel
> packages I don't need and see what happens.  Worse case, I have to
> reinstall, but then this is a test release and I am learning so reinstalling
> is to be expected.

use 'yum remove' - this will show you the depencencies - before the packages
are removed.

Satish




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