Is it OK to delete Mail.app and friends?

[yotd]

I have a laptop which I've decided I want to use for certain things (coding mostly) and leaving the 'fun' things for my mac Mini. I want to maximise disk space on my MBP. As such, I have deleted iTunes and the iLife applications. As I access all my PIM stuff through the web, I had considered deleting iCal and Mail also, as I will never use them.

I know that I can install iLife again if I need it. I'm not so sure about Mail and iCal. Is it safe to delete these? Could I get them back without a full OS reinstall?

 

[robbieduncan]

You can use Pacifist to install individual apps. But really how much disk space are you going to save?

 

[GGJstudios]

You can use Pacifist to install individual apps. But really how much disk space are you going to save?

Only about 6MB on Mail and 5MB on iCal. Hardly worth the effort.

 

[yotd]

Thanks, I'll look into that.

At the least I'd save 128 MB. Not a massive amount I suppose. I'm just mindful of disk space.

 

[yotd]

Only about 6MB on Mail and 5MB on iCal. Hardly worth the effort.

I'm not quibbling, but finder reports 51 MB for iCal and 77 for Mail.

 

[Nermal]

Only about 6MB on Mail and 5MB on iCal. Hardly worth the effort.

How did you come to those figures? My Mail.app is 77.3 MB and iCal.app is 51.5 MB.

Edit: Too slow!

 

[robbieduncan]

How did you come to those figures? My Mail.app is 77.3 MB and iCal.app is 51.5 MB.

Most likely something like monolingual has been used to remove extra languages. Each language in my Mail.app adds 2Mb or so...

 

[GGJstudios]

How did you come to those figures? My Mail.app is 77.3 MB and iCal.app is 51.5 MB.

I'm guessing because I use Monolingual to remove all the unused language support. Some like it and some don't, but it's saved me over 1GB of space without removing any software.

 

[yotd]

I'm guessing because I use Monolingual to remove all the unused language support.

Well that's a useful tip!