Hey, I really hate to get into this discussion, but honestly, this
seems to be a pointless thing to do. I mean after all, with at a
minimum of 60 or 80Gb of drive space in even the bottom of the line
Mac Mini, do you really loose that much space? It just doesn't justify
Apple's time in creating a filter just to exclude those apps. Not to
mention the fact that if they become available, then your going to
want them? I think I'd rather see Apple spend their efforts on making
the apps accessible instead of developing filters and the like to
exclude them. If your that pressed for drive space, then get an
external drive. You can get tuns of space for pennies really so
although I understand where your coming from, it just doesn't make
sense.
Scott
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On Aug 14, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Probably something mac users could use. Things I'd like to filter
from installs be they done with disks or on line would be eye candy
that's not appropriate for totally blind users to have on machines
and all software that isn't completely VoiceOver compatible for the
particular release versions in question. This should especially
apply to trialware. An installer needs to have the ability to set
these options in preferences somewhere and have things go from
there. It's easier blocking incompatible and software that's just
not ready than to find all of it and get it correctly deleted after
the fact at least for now. An alternate approach to this could be
used so long as apple provides something like bash where scripts can
get written to clean bunches of stuff up quickly. In that case this
would be a worthwhile undertaking especially for those without all
that much hard drive space. More freed up hard drive space leaves
more room for podcasts and freeware and shareware to be installed
that may work.
