>> I'm wondering if anyone has some code to strip all that out thus
>> returning I suspect a couple of MB back for more constructive usage?
>>     
> Yep been there!
>
> MC1.5 has a "trim ancestry" menu item in the right hand column of the
> monticello browser. To get the ancestry back just reload the package, so
> it is really redundant in a deployed image.
>
> regards
>
> Keith
>
>   
I added a "trim ALL ancestry" which shows in the menu if no working
copies are selected.

Keith