Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 20:24 +0200, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-remove-orphaned-packages-on-centos-linux > > > > It worked for me: > > > > Get a list of orphaned packages: > > > > $ package-cleanup --leaves > > > > Remove them: > > > > # yum remove

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-21 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
On 21.08.21 19:02, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:10 -0600, James Szinger wrote: My typical approach is to run `package-cleanup --leaves --all` or `yum leaves` (might need software not on CentOS 8) and justify everything that is there. I have about 85 leaf packages on a

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-21 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:10 -0600, James Szinger wrote: > My typical approach is to run `package-cleanup --leaves --all` or > `yum > leaves` (might need software not on CentOS 8) and justify everything > that is there. I have about 85 leaf packages on a CentOS 7 web > server, so a minimal

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:17:11 -0400 Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following > > packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them: > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 21/08/2021 01:34, Warren Young wrote: > Our post-install removal command here is: > > dnf -y remove cockpit* pcp* These aren't present in a minimal CentOS 8 installation. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 20, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > What other things do folk usually remove to make their installation smaller? Our post-install removal command here is: dnf -y remove cockpit* pcp* But we’re old-school Unix geeks, so there you go. :)

Re: [CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 10:25, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > Hi folks, > > After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following > packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them: > > cronie-anacron (replaced with cronie-noanacron) > alsa-firmware > ivtv-firmware >

[CentOS] Minimising a CentOS installation

2021-08-20 Thread Anand Buddhdev
Hi folks, After doing a minimal CentOS 8.4 installation, I found the following packages to be useful for a simple server, so I removed them: cronie-anacron (replaced with cronie-noanacron) alsa-firmware ivtv-firmware iwl*-firmware sssd-common (along with all packages that depended on it) What