Cleaning House

From: CWO4 Dave Mann (misterfixit_at_loveable.com)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:06:12 -0500

System: FC3 on hdb

I've pretty much gotten everything working the way I want on my new system.
When I originally loaded FC3 I used the DVD and simply put everything on
hdb to try out.

Now, I want to trim the system down and make it "mine". I've read up on
rebuilding the kernel and I am pretty OK with that idea. I have 2 versions
of FC3 on my system now (the older and then the latest which was upgraded
by yum upgrade. I'll need to blow that away.

Anyway, I understand that rpm can be used to remove packages, cleanly, but I
am more interested in cleaning out everything I don't need.

Some of my ideas are:

1. preserve /home on my Firewire
2. Erase everything from hdb and reinstall FC3 with only those selected
apps that I will use.
3. #2 above, however, seems to lose the d/l apps I have built ... like Nero
for Linux, Storix, and so forth.
4. After reloading FC3 copy the /home files and overwrite the "new" /home
folder.

What say you all?

TIA!

Dave

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