[mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:52:53 -0800, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:54, Thom Paine wrote:
>> > do you absolutely have to remove them? taking them out of the menus is
>> > probably safer
>>
>> Well, I guess I didn't know if the mythtv-suite contained the whole
>> thing, or if it was split up among the different sections.
>
> mythtv-suite is a virtual package with no actual contents, just  
> dependencies
> on all the myth packages on ATrpms. So you can safely:
>
> # rpm -e mythtv-suite
> # rpm -e mythphone mythgame mythgallery etc
>
>> I was just hoping to speed up my machine a bit, but maybe I should
>> change from Fedora Core 3 to something lighter.
>
> Fedora Core 3 is plenty fast. Changing a distribution entirely does not a
> faster machine make. Disable all services you don't need, switch to a  
> very
> lightweight window manager, etc., and the performance difference between  
> FC3
> and any other distro is typically marginal at best.
>

A list of services that can safely be disabled on a Myth box would be a  
good addition to the guide. Just a thought - I have no idea what some of  
those processes that ps and top reports are actually doing... :)

/ Niklas