Hi all, Been looking at what's brought in by default by the restricted checkbox in the installer and I think we can have better defaults. Here is a brief summary of what we have today:
ubuntu-restricted-addons (what the installer checkbox does) - Flash - gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra - gstreamer1.0-libav (and dependencies are 114 MB) - gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly (just 5 MB) - gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad (314 MB) ubuntu-restricted-extras (what we recommend if on installed system) - the above ubuntu-restricted-addons - libavcodec-extra - ttf-mscorefonts-installer - unrar Proposals (all just affect being in the metapackages, not in archives). I'm envisioning ending the -extras package. Flash - remove Adobe is officially killing it entirely at end of 2020 - https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html Apparently Mac OS may have stopped including it by default in *2010*. Mozilla (and all browser vendors) will make Flash more inconvenient to use in the 2nd half of 2018. Requiring people to specifically install it will make it easier to determine how many Ubuntu users actually really want Flash. gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 - hoping we can provide MP3 support by default soon like Fedora just did (right?). Still on track for 18.04 or can that be pushed up? gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad - remove This is by far the heaviest item we bring in and from what I can tell libav and ugly really cover the majority of codecs most people will run into. Bad plugins also likely provide an easy security target as they say they have code quality issues. unrar - remove One of the biggest uses is with comic books, but apparently that can be done for free these days - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/evince-3-26-will-let-view-adobe-illustrator-cbr-files I also don't expect the use of unrar to be anywhere near the tasks the other packages enables. libavcodec-extra - remove or move to -addons no preference, doesn't seem like size is the issue ttf-mscorefonts-installer - promote to -addons Fonts missing is one of the biggest reasons documents in LibreOffice don't like they do in MS Office. Thanks! Bryan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
