Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On a tangent to this... whats the easiest way to get a feel of which > packages I'm not using on my fedora install? Is there anytihng more > clever than doing an exhaustive check of atimes on all the files owned > by rpm packages and comparing that to the package install time? After I do a fresh install, I usually just go through the "rpm -qa" list and start trying "rpm -e" on stuff that I believe I don't use, and see when I get a dependency on something that I know I *do* use. Which is distressingly often. There is just an amazing amount of dependency clutter in there. For example: I don't use Windows, ever. This means I don't use Samba. But I can't uninstall it, because Nautilus depends on it. Now, I don't use Nautilus either, but I can't just uninstall *that*, because control-center depends on it, which I *do* use. Likewise, I don't own a printer and haven't in years, but I often find myself unable to delete the zillions of printer drivers without also deleting Ghostscript and half of Gnome or something. If space is tight, the first thing I do is nuke everything except en_US under /usr/share/locale/ and /usr/lib/locale/ -- since I don't happen to speak 113 different languages, that's more than 320MB of pure waste. Blowing away /usr/share/doc/ is also helpful; it's huge, and every file in there is Googlable. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/
