Joachim Schrod composed on 2014-11-26 03:03 (UTC+0100):
Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
One candidate I could identify is * seamonkey
As somebody who uses Seamonkey and who pays(!! -- yes, I have a subscriptiom) for each openSUSE-DVD: yes, drop it.
Has it escaped everyone's notice that latest Firefox rpm is now bigger (34M, no email) than latest SeaMonkey rpm (31M with email)? Firefox 1 & 2 downloads, depending on build source, were in the 8-10MB range.
Those of us who use Seamonkey are more than likely to switch to the OBS repository for a current version anyhow, so go for it. It's a good candidate to get rid of for the DVD.
Some of us are SeaMonkey users because it's the web suite we used to learn the Internet, browsing, and email, and more, and never switched to anything else. Here for all the above it's been an unbroken chain: Netscape 2 Netscape 3 Netscape 4 Mozilla 0.x Mozilla 1.x SeaMonkey 1.x Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.30 (as you can see in this email's headers) Switching to "latest" or OBS is a red herring. Every new installation from GA DVD has an old browser version that needs updating ASAP no matter which browser one prefers. If you want to free DVD space deleting Internet apps, deleting the RAM and storage space-wasting Firefox+Thunderbird combination instead of SeaMonkey leaves the initial installation more functional. SeaMonkey starts right off the bat with features that require a bunch of add-ons to acquire, which the DVD omits, with the stripped-down, minimalist UI, Chrome lookalike, Mozilla Suite spinoff that is Firefox. If you're going to get rid of SeaMonkey you should get rid of both Firefox and Thunderbird too instead of making people install Internet space-wasters they won't use just to be able to get to Internet they will use. Opera's rpm takes half the DVD space of Firefox's while including the email functionality that would require TB or SM in addition to FF. Links will get people onto the Internet from an only 3MB rpm, without need for nspr, nss and branding requires in addition. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org