<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:02 PM, tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I think there is a bit of a logical problem here ins that if the system *didn't* have 'all that junk' the immediate result would be complaints that 'it doesn't have all that useful stuff like other systems'.</blockquote>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'd prefer this logical problem be solved by moving as much junk as is practically possible out of the base image(s), but make it trivial to find and load them back in. Half that battle is in the finding. Right now, I can imagine that it's difficult for many people to tell the most useful stuff that's out there. Maybe the board or some other body could build a consensus top 20 downloads (for a newbie developer audience at first), give them prominence in the image, and make sure the load ok in the base image(s), that would be a good start. Eventually, maybe we could make it so that certain things can be triggered to get loaded automatically (I can imagine for example that turning on syntax highlighing could be made to load Shout automatically).</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>- Stephen</div></div>