yum package removal

RAmos · 03-22-2010, 11:37 PM

i have a webserver and im trying to remove unneeded packages...

1) i want to remove all *-devel packages, whats the best way and is it safe todo yum remove *-devel?

2) i have the following groups installed...
Installed Groups:
DNS Name Server
Dialup Networking Support < do i need?
Editors < do i need?
Legacy Network Server < do i need?
Legacy Software Support < do i need?
Mail Server
MySQL Database
Network Servers < do i need?
System Tools < do i need?
Text-based Internet < do i need?

is it safe to remove them?

MensaWater · 03-23-2010, 07:58 AM

You might want to be careful about that - some packages provide libraries used by runtimes even after they're compiled.

If it were me I'd run "rpm -qa |grep "\-devel" to get a list of the packages then remove the ones I'd found one at a time to be sure there weren't key things depending on any of them.