CD image size recovery suggestions

[Colin Watson]

I spent a little while this evening looking through options for
recovering the enormous size deficit (up to 30MB in places) on our
current CD images, and applied one or two things before realising that I
could easily sort out Ubuntu in the short term by removing lots of
language packs. However, this isn't an ideal approach in the medium
term, so I still want to explore options.

Before replying to this on ubuntu-devel suggesting other things to
remove, *please* check
http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/germinate-output/edgy/ to ensure that
your suggestion will have a measurable impact on CD size. To forestall
some expected responses, removing very high-profile applications like
OpenOffice.org or Firefox is not on the table, and since the addition of
Mono has garnered a certain amount of PR attention I'm not all that keen
on backing that one out either.


Various people suggested removing gthumb, since f-spot now replaces it
(except for some cases where eog fills the gap). This seems potentially
controversial, but might be reasonable.

According to a thread on ubuntu-devel@, foomatic-filters-ppds can
disappear and be replaced by a symlink in the cupsys package. This would
be good news if true, and would recover 11MB or so from desktop; Martin
Pitt won't be around this week, but I'll try to look into this or have
someone who's around do so.

example-content has the 11MB "Experience ubuntu.ogg" video. This was
sort of a Dapper special, and I wonder if it makes sense to keep it
around forever. Perhaps, now that most people who would see it in Edgy
have seen it already, we should move it out to a separate package and
drop it from the CDs. Mark, what do you think?

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]