On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:43:43PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:40:56AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 01/19/2012 08:54 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Peter Robinson (pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > >> Great idea, I would also love to see a clear out of the packages > > >> that aren't core/part of particular categories. MTAs in minimal > > >> would be one that comes to mind but there's lots of other > > >> examples. > > > > > > Yeah, I'd like to clean this up. The sad thing is that even if I > > > define the minimal group as: > > > > > > kernel dracut util-linux systemd systemd-units initscripts yum > > > selinux-policy-targeted policycoreutils > > > > > > it merely drops it from 524MB/186 packages to 503MB/152 packages. I > > > could make it smaller by dropping yum/rpm and dependencies, but I > > > can't in good conscience ship an *installation target* minimal > > > install that doesn't allow you to get updates or add-in packages. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > Any headscratchers in the list or rpms? I just saw that > > policycoreutils had a Require for bunzip2, which it does not need. > > I wrote a little graphical tool called rpmdepsize (it's in Fedora) > which may be useful. Unfortunately it only works with a single > package, eg: > > rpmdepsize kernel There is also rpmreaper. It does not allow to show the size of a package including all its dependencies (it would be a nice feature :-), but it is really good for examining dependencies, reverse dependencies and dependency cycles of installed packages. D. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
