CD image size recovery suggestions

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 30 09:40:57 BST 2006


On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:26:43AM -0700, 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.
> 
> Lets step outside our own usecase. How many users actually use vim?

Seriously? I don't care. vim-tiny does not take up enough space for this
argument to matter; vi is a traditional component of a Unix system, and
should be there. vim is certainly large enough that it should probably
be demoted to ship (and perhaps removed from the CD altogether if we run
out of space), but there should always be a functional vi in the base
system. Ubuntu is still a Unix system.

(I'm going to miss syntax highlighting by default, but there you go.)

> (Hint:This mailing list is very a bad sample). I would wager more
> users use IRC and yet we removed xchat (for good reason).

xchat isn't a traditional Unix component. (Nor is emacs, for that
matter.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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