Jamie Zawinski <jwz(a)jwz.org> 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...
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).
Enrico