[Live-demo] 5.0 Beta 4 Status - Space

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Wed Aug 10 02:50:31 EDT 2011


On 08/09/2011 11:46 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
> 
> On 09.08.2011, at 22:30, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> vim,vim-runtime 27 M , not to start a flame war but new users to linux
>> don't use this.
> 
> As long as there is some vi and no emacs. ;)
> 
> 
> You can use dpkg-query to get the size of all packages:
> 
>   $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Installed-Size} ${Package}\n' | sort -n
> 
> And that shows that there are two linux kernels (111MB each) and there is also a texlive distribution (multiple packages, total ~110MB). Is that really needed?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> 

The default editor is nano, which is much easier to use than vi, but yes
plain vi should still be there.

Texlive is a dep of R, not sure if we can remove it. We are aware of the
kernels, though I thought I had made sure only the current was installed.

Thanks for the ideas,
Alex


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