CD image size recovery suggestions

[Dane Mutters]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 00:26, Corey Burger wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Dane Mutters <dmutters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 23:36, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> > > I that the people, who do use vim, are capable enough to
> > >download the full version from the Internet ;-)
> >
> > I'd personally be very disappointed if one of my favorite distributions
> > stopped shipping with a fully-functional version of vim.  It's always one
> > of the first things I install if it's not there already, and I
> > practically hate my computer until it's installed, configured, and ready
> > to go.
> >
> > --Dane
>
> Lets step outside our own usecase. How many users actually use vim?
> (Hint:This mailing list is very a bad sample). I would wager more
> users use IRC and yet we removed xchat (for good reason).  If users
> need an editor, nano works for that. If you want a programmers editor,
> installing it is not hard, just as installing monodevelop, emacs,
> eclipse, or countless others would be. Plus, vim takes up ~25 mb on
> the cd (assuming I am doing my math right).
>
> Corey


I realize that this list does not contain an accurate sampling of typical 
users, but I think that these links should provide a decent guideline for 
stuff that should/shouldn't be removed:

Linuxquestions.org 2005 Members Choice Awards:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?f=69

LQ's Editor of choice
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=409039

It's interesting to note that vi/vim is still the most-used (or at least 
best-liked) editor in this poll of what I would deem typical Linux users.

--Dane