From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 17:24:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221E516A4CE; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:24:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE1443FA3; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DBCCC66C8E; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:24:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:24:41 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alfred Perlstein Message-ID: <20031130012441.GA11695@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3FC93182.9090300@freebsd.org> <20031130000320.GZ35957@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031130000320.GZ35957@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to trim the disc1 packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:24:47 -0000 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Scott Long [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 questionable value since it is severely out of date.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 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/yUbZWry0BWjoQKURAquyAJ9+VbzbPdzkXRrRXFNkSdaLNqcupwCfV9J7 7hpBVpZJcNKkaSkywyG2f9M= =2ovy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--