Trying to slim down my installation
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 18:26:38 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 16:48 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:35:27 +0100, john wrote:
>
> > This is interesting. I too have slimmed down an F11 installation by
> > removing a __lot__ of stuff that I know that I wont be using on a
> > laptop.
> >
> > But this works over here.
> >
> > rpm -e libgweather-2.26.1-1.fc11.i586 --nodeps
>
> After that any program that requires the libgweather library will
> not even start. E.g. the GNOME clock applet.
>
If you really want to reduce the disk footprint of your installation,
you want to check out %_install_langs to only install the locales you
really care about. Sadly, this is a very neglected feature of rpm, and
we don't really support this or expose it in any usable fashion...
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