[CLUE-Tech] Software Audit

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "mike" == mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> writes:

mike> Hey folks, I am a bit dissapointed with RedHat and its
mike> derivatives.

mike> I must be missing something with rh8 and rh9 into fedora.  What
mike> I want to do is audit my installations and remove unneaded
mike> software. When I go to the gui to add and remove packages I am
mike> unsatisfied with the refinement.

Which GUI? Are you talking about the installer?

mike> In the old redhat you could do package addition and removal
mike> pretty nitty gritty.

Yeah, the old installer would let you do that. It was removed from the
new ones as the tools to do that after you have installed were much
better and that just duplicated functionality. 

mike> I just installed a basic server on one machine and when I do rpm
mike> -qa and start looking through all the packages I see all kinds
mike> of stuff that I don't need ... eg various lang support and
mike> associated graphics.

mike> Plus for a server why do I need any GUI anyway ..

mike> There are tons of GTK and other gui support libs...  sigh...

At least in fedora core 2 you can install a server and tell it 
'no X'

mike> I want to strip this system clean of most "Desktop" related
mike> stuff :) Just enough to let me strip the system if you know what
mike> I mean :)

There is also a 'minimal' install at the bottom near the everything
install. Try using that and then adding anything you need using yum or
one of the automated tools. ;) 

mike> -Mike

kevin
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