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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:24:41 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need to trim the disc1 packages
Message-ID:  <20031130012441.GA11695@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031130000320.GZ35957@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <3FC93182.9090300@freebsd.org> <20031130000320.GZ35957@elvis.mu.org>

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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> [031129 15:55] wrote:
> > All,
> >=20
> > We are badly overflowing the disc1 release ISO with packages, and need
> > to trim it down.  One package that could easily get axed is the
> > linux-netscape-communicator package.  It is 17MB in size, and is of
> > questionable value since it is severely out of date.  Does anyone still
> > rely on it, or can I safely remove it?  It's only value seemed to be
> > it's ability to run old linux-specific browser plugins.  If I remove it,
> > it will still be available from the FTP site, just not on disc1.
>=20
> Uh, it's really stable and useable expecially on older machines,
> it'd be nice to have it easily accessable.  That said I'm not going
> to fight for it, but perhaps you can find a bunch of less visible
> or more bloated (*cough*emacs*cough*) packages to ditch. :)

Please make concrete suggestions by looking at the
print-cdrom-packages script and the sizes of the packages on
ftp.freebsd.org.

Kris

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