[Gllug] Stripped down CentOS 5.3

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon May 25 23:05:31 UTC 2009


On 25 May 2009, Tethys said:

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> Hakuna Matata writes:
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>>I want to uninstall/Strip down the CentOS with all packages except the
>>below. could someone please advise or point me to the right approach.
>
> Get a list of packages installed on the system with "rpm -qa".
> Then pick the ones you don't want, and "yum erase" them. Be warned
> that like most modern Linux distributions, RHEL/CentOS has far more
> package dependencies than it should

The JDK will have an awful lot of dependencies anyway (as will anything
GNOMEish).

(... waiting as gentoo builds: even on a Nehalem it takes forever:
there's a *lot* in there...)
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