[CLUE-Tech] Software Audit

[Michael Riversong]

Yesterday i was trying to revive an old computer that had everything
wiped off the hard drive and used Debian Woody.  I noticed that
installer gave you the option of not having X Windows installed.

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 10:02, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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> >>>>> "mike" == mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> writes:
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> 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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