Re: [Swarm-Support] I made step-by-step RedHat install/test instructions

[Paul Johnson]

I don't think your os performance will be enhanced. But you might free 
up some disk space. And you might cut a security risk from running some 
services you don't know or understand.

I'd suggest you review all rpm's installed with this:

rpm -qa

Or, if you installed the gnome desktop, there is a package manager that 
will list packages by topic. It does not list the file space they use, 
though, which is sad. I found that tool to be somewhat unreliable. After 
upgrading several packages from the RH update ftp, that tool showed the 
packages were not installed. Obviously, it thinks if you don't have it 
from their CD, you don't have it at all. What's worse, it gets all 
confused and tries to remove the updated version. So watch out!

And then try removing the ones you don't recognize/understand.  If you 
are killing something vital, usually the dependencies will warn you 
about them.

There are too many differences of opinion about what is "useful and 
necessary" to make this very useful, but on this system I removed

evolution
dvdrecord
gedit
switchdesk
gaim
xsane
xsane-gimp
sane-frontends
chromium
freeciv
kdegames
tuxracer
xboard
gcc-gnat
imap
redhat-config-kickstart
postfix
anything related to nfs, including authconfig-gtk
fetchmail
mutt
postfix

Then,since I use lyx to make tetex docs, I had to install all of the 
tetex packages (actually, I got the new ones from the internet for 
tetex-2.0.1, I built xforms-1.0 and lyx 1.2.3, because I could not get 
1.3 to build against the qt headers or against xforms)

blah blah blah



Kanagaraj Krishna wrote:
> Hi,
>    Thanks for this contribution. Anyway i have a question..........although 
> this is not related to SWARM. What do you  mean by irritaiting packages. I want 
> to uninstall packages that i don't need to improve my os performance. My usage 
> of Red Hat is for programming only. Any advise on this. Thanks
>
> Regards,
> Kana  
> --




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