Re: trimming down Fedora installed size

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On 04/09/2014 12:57 PM, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 12:37 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Marius A <marius1439@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 1. remove /usr/share/docs
>>
>> Try this in /etc/rpm/macros.whatever:
>>     %_excludedocs 1
> 
>  For recent yum it's significantly better to do:
> 
> yum fs filter nodocs
> 
>> Try this in /etc/rpm/macros.whatever:
>>     %_install_langs en
> 
>  Dito. to get rid of extra languages by:
> 
> yum fs filter langs en
> 
> ...then you can yum fs refilter / yum fs refilter-cleanup.
> 
>> It's possible that these settings break some things such as scriptlets
>> that do not take missing files into account, but at least they're
>> cleaner attempts than simply deleting installed files/dirs.
> 
>  This can still be true though.
> 

Of course, this would all be much more obvious if the `yum help` output
didn't say "fs  Creates filesystem snapshots, or lists/deletes current
snapshots," exactly what it also says for fssnapshot. Bug filed. [1]

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086461

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