Max Beerli wrote:
I installed Fedora Core 2 and picked the Custom installation to pick
the least amount of packages. Upon issuing the "rpm -qa | less"
command I see a bunch of packages which I'm not sure I need or not
like "finger, ftp, procmail, rdate, rdist, rsh, talk, telnet" just to
name a few. Has anyone here figured out which are the critical
packages and which can be removed without causing any issues, ie. some
fedora scripts might need them for some reason?
You can have a look on the first cd at the comps.xml file to see what is
categorized as 'minimal'.
The path is /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/base/comps.xml.
In that file you can check out the 'core', and 'base' groups - which
seem to be 'essential' for any Fedora installation. IMHO - if you can do
an rpm -e on the package after installation, and you don't get any
dependency warnings - the package is not 'essential' and therefore
should not be in 'core' or 'base'.
Anyhoo - good luck with it!
pantz
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