On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Philip Rowlands wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, dan wrote:
IIRC, the manual states that @Base and @Core groups are installed by
default, however, I believe specific packages can be "removed" from
those groups, or not installed, by prefixing each package name with a
"-" under %packagse. I'm going to try to give this a shot.
Packages can be excluded, but be aware of the
--ignoredeps/--resolvedeps/--ignoremissing flags to %packages, which
decide how anaconda will react to missing dependencies.
It *is* possible to remove some leaf-node packages from @Base and @Core,
but I don't know of a quick'n'easy way to suggest for pruning. (At one
point I had a notion to write a GUI tool for this, but I was befuddled
by the rpm Python libs. Perhaps someone will chime in to point out the
myriad dependency-tracking package management GUIs which already exist.)
You can look for leafnodes with this script:
http://laiskiainen.org/rpm/scripts/rpmorphan.py
By default it only looks for leafnodes which look like libraries, for real
pruning run with -a option to show all leafnodes. Beware though, there are
things like 'grub' which nothing depends on :)
- Panu -
