Slimming down default install?

[Martin Alderson]

I notice that emacs, vim and pico/nano are installed by default.
Surely the point of Ubuntu is to offer a flexible, feature complete
'base' and work on top of it. I highly commend you for having only one
web browser, one office suite, one video player, one audio player -
not the 4 of each that most other distros ship with.

I would suggest keeping pico (because it's the smallest) and get rid
of emacs and vim. Those two take up around 20MB in my estimation,
which is a lot of space that could be used for something else.

Anyone who uses emacs and vim anyway will have the knowledge to do
sudo apt-get install vim and have it installed?

I noticed this because I did a dist-upgrade to hoary and emacs was one
of the biggest pacakges I had to download.

Any chance of this happening?