> Although gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad does have important uses such as providing > audio codecs and the GL plugin, totem will install it on demand, anyway. So > yes you should be able to drop it. > > I would like to add a couple to that list though: > - va-driver-all (should include i965-va-driver) > - gstreamer1.0-vaapi
va-driver-all is already brought in by gstreamer1.0-libav Which means we only need to add gstreamer1.0-vaapi to the list and it's less than 1 MB, so easy win :). > On 02/08/17 00:18, Bryan Quigley wrote: >> >> 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 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
