[LUG] Listing packages by size.

["Neil Williams" <linux at codehelp.co.uk>]

Is there a simple way of listing the top 20 packages in order of installed
size? I'm trying to save disk space and pare down the installation of
Mandrake 7.2 to fit it's new role as a Apache / PHP / IMAP server. I'm not
going to log in on the actual Linux box except as a last resort and it's
already running in runlevel 3 to improve performance. The box itself is
limited in both disc capacity and memory so tips on cutting down the number
of running services would be useful too.

It's a 180MHz Pentium I compatible (Cyrix I think) with 64MB RAM. Compared
to my main computer, it's sluggish beyond when used in XWindows. Speed is
fine in file server mode. Currently it's a 1.5Gb installation and I've
already removed the games, mgetty, xmms, pilot, and other bits. It was
originally installed as a workstation instead of a server so there's
probably plenty of unused packages installed. I don't want to uninstall
XWindows itself or KDE as I will inevitably need to get in eventually - I
still seem to trash the system entirely at times!


Neil Williams
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mail at neilw.screaming.net
linux at codehelp.co.uk
www.codehelp.co.uk






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