On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Bernd Stramm <bernd.stramm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Removing the screenshots, icons, popularity vote results etc etc
post-install is not a good solution. These things should be available
when someone wants to look at them, not installed by default.
The mechanisms to look at them should be there unless removed, but not
the advertising for several thousand packages.
Since the install can't happen unless you're online— why not load
these screenshots over the network on demand?
I was just making fun of an ubuntu desktop install the other day: No
NFS client but >100 mbytes of icons.
None of these decisions exist in a vacuum— if fedora is to include
many megabytes of screenshots in the default install then thats a
great many applications which can't be installed.
For many simple programs a good high resolution screenshot of the
program will be similar in size to the program.