Dropping tomboy from the CD at least for part of the oneiric cycle

Eric Appleman erappleman at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 07:45:58 UTC 2011


On 06/15/2011 04:24 AM, Piotr Drozdek wrote:
> Dnia 2011-06-14, o godz. 21:00:31
> Sebastien Bacher<seb128 at ubuntu.com>  napisał(a):
>
>> Since that work has been stalling for a while, we need CD space and we
>> want to get ride of the deprecated library we decided during the
>> meeting to drop tomboy from the CD at least until it's ported to
>> gsettings.
>
> Hi.
> When we are going to switch to default DVD release? Users really don't
> like to install system and realize, that all their default small apps
> and programs are gone, and they have to look for them in Software
> Center. Many times users just don't remember proper app name.
> You wanna cut Tomboy from Oneric - but any other notetaker app will be
> there (by default)? If no, that's mean we gonna again to cut system
> functionality just because to fit CD's 700MB.
>
As others have said in the past, fitting Ubuntu on a CD is an exercise 
in keeping the distro somewhat lightweight.

We've always made do with that approach, but the limits are getting 
harder and harder with each cycle.

- Eric



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