Enrico Scholz wrote:
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@xxxxxxx> writes:
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.
ACK; some packages should be split to avoid such dependencies. 'gnupg' (which brings 'perl' and 'openldap' into the game (additional 50MB)) and 'kernel' (which wastes 30MB and 6000 inodes of my /) are packages coming at first into my mind...
ACK ACK: packages should be split, dependencies (at least those that are automagically
generated, the majority these days) are not the problem.
If space is tight, the first thing I do is nuke everything except en_US
under /usr/share/locale/ and /usr/lib/locale/
Just do 'echo "%_install_langs C:en" >>/etc/rpm/macros' and reinstall
everything (as anaconda neither sets it on fresh installs nor honors it
on upgrades).
Yep.
And no matter what (fairly arcane and obscure) flaws there are %_netsharedpath /usr/share/doc is at least as good a solution as cd /usr/share/doc rm -rf * for preventing files from being installed in /usr/share/doc.
Assuming that is what you want to do.
73 de Jeff
Enrico
