On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:54:08 -0600 Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:38:18 -0600 > Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks, btw, there are a number of rpms etc that are involved in the > > installation. It would be nice if the LiveCD installation would > > automatically get rid of things that are never going to be of any use. > > Can you provide some examples? > Things installed are there because they were specifically requested or > are required by things that do. :) OK, let us see: the most obvious one is anaconda. This should be eliminated after installation, unless there can be some conceivable/remote reason (which I do not know of) for keeping them. > > > The Ubuntu LiveCD (such as XFCE/LXDE) for instance has an explicit > > process which describes unneeded rpms (they call them .debs) being > > removed. It would be more efficient and less wasteful of resources for > > F to also get rid of these rpms which have no role to play as > > installation. > > The scripts we are talking about are not in any package, they are an > artifact of the live media install. If you look at them, you should see > that in fact they just exit and do nothing on an installed system. ;) > Agreed. But that is why there is no reason to still keep them around? Smaller system: happier system:-) Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
