Re: Minimising a CentOS installation

[Steven Rosenberg <passthejoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:10 -0600, James Szinger wrote:

> My typical approach is to run `package-cleanup --leaves --all` or
> `yum
> leaves` (might need software not on CentOS 8) and justify everything
> that is there.  I have about 85 leaf packages on a CentOS 7 web
> server, so a minimal package set should be smaller.  Experiment with
> a
> disposable VM so it is easy to recover from mistakes.

Thanks for this. I did a little searching and found this page:


https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-remove-orphaned-packages-on-centos-linux

It worked for me:

Get a list of orphaned packages:

$ package-cleanup --leaves

Remove them:

# yum remove `package-cleanup --leaves`

That's only if you're OK removing all of them.

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