oversize on f18 again. ;)

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:26:53 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 10.11.2012, 14:39 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fenzi:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853590
> > 
> > Some options: 
> > 
> > - nuke icedtea-web (this saves 100MB or so, but means people won't be
> >   able to test java in the live instance). 
> 
> It should be ~70 mb at least, but I am afraid it is unintuitive. People
> will just see that something doesn't work but hardly know how to fix it.
> "icedtea" is not really to find in the package management.
> 
> > - seahorse - 7mb
> 
> Not a bad idea, however I consider seahorse useful.
> 
> > - Longer term: split perl deps out of exo and see if we can remove
> >   perl? lm_sensors also needs perl, so we would have to drop
> >   xfce4-sensors-plugin, but I think it's worth it. That could save us a
> >   ton of room down the road. This dep is due exo-compose-mail-1 helper
> >   being a perl script.
> 
> I doubt that we cal really remove perl form the spin and even if we can,
> it means we loose some features like attaching a file form Thunar to a
> mail via the "Send to" menu.
> 
> > - drop one of firefox or midori. ;) 
> 
> Yes please! The question is: Which one? Throw a coin or play
> rock-paper-scissors(-spock)? ;)
> 
> > - We really only need a bit of room at this point, so other smaller
> >   suggestions?
> 
> Drop some themes!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
> 

I will second the "drop some themes"! It is an easy way to gain a bit
of space.

If more than that is needed, flip the coin. Cutting one browser does
not prevent anyone from installing it when wanted.

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