CD image size recovery suggestions
Matthias Klose
doko at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 29 09:06:11 BST 2006
Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
>
Replace vim by vim-tiny, saving over 6MB (vim-runtime); we already have
one editor (gedit), we don't need another big editor for the command
line. If people expect a complete vim, we could modify the start screen
to point to the whistles-and-bells version of vim.
Matthias
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