[RULE] Some space saving RPM tricks

[M. Fioretti]

Just seen on fedora/devel:

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If you want to keep using RPM, placing these macros in /etc/rpm/macros
before installing the packages (using yum --installroot or whatever)
will help reduce some of the package bloat:

%_excludedocs 1
%_install_langs %{nil}

A custom kernel RPM that eliminates the /lib/modules/$KVER/build/*
subtree and unnecessary modules will also save tens of megabytes:

% rpm -qp --qf "%{SIZE} %{NAME}\n" kernel-2.6.10 kernel-lite-2.6.10 
35919932 kernel
11309049 kernel-lite

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