saving space on the Xfce Spin

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:30:33 +0200
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at gmail.com> wrote:

...snip...

> Suggestions:
>      1. Drop xfce4-icon-theme, it's broken anyway. I suggest to mark
> it as "optional" in comps so it no longer gets installed by default
>         (and on the spin).

Yeah. +1. 

>      2. Drop claws-mail-plugins-bogofilter, people will hardly notice
>         it.

Yep. I use it, but it should be easy for anyone who does to just
install. 

>      3. Drop cheese, at least if we cannot get gnome-desktop3 split
> up. xfce4-icon-theme and claws-mail-plugins-bogofilter will not help
>         us much, but cheese alone could do the trick.

+1

If we still want a web camera app we could look at camorama. It's
really old, but it seems to work ok here and doesn't pull in much... 

>      4. Get rid of one browser, either firefox or midori. midori only
>         makes sense if we also remove lifearea.

Yeah. I personally would like to see midori stay. ;) 

> 
> Additional packages:
> There are two more packages I'd like to see in the spin.
>      1. For some reason, net-tools doesn't get installed, so there is
> no ifconfig. It's only 294k.

Sure I guess, but you should retrain yourself to use 'ip' :) 

>      2. I's like to see the new mousepad version in the spin, but
>         unfortunately it adds another 4.1 through it's dependency to
>         gtksourceview2. leafpad on the other hand is only 322k.

Yeah. I am ok with just staying with leafpad. 

kevin
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