Re: Need to trim the disc1 packages

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 11/30/03

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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>

    On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
    > * Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> [031129 15:55] wrote:
    > > All,
    > >
    > > 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 questionable value since it is severely out of date.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.
    >
    > 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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