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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--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 <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 questionable value since it is severely out of date.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 --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--
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