Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:13:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@dreamscape.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1 disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007061104180.21236-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <49976.962872313@localhost>
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Is it decided yet what will be on the 4.1 disks? Is there room for > > the distfiles, and is it still 4 disks? > > Sadly, there is no room for the distfiles anymore since even the > packages, which are the #1 user requested items, are overflowing the 4 > CDs. I may be able to fight and win a battle to go to 6 CDs, but > that will only catch us up with packages and "various extra bits" > again. Meanwhile, the distfiles have bloated up to around 3GB > and only the FreeBSD toolkit can possibly accomodate even a good > selection of them, so that's what we're doing now. If you want > distfiles, buy the toolkit. If you want basic release bits and > packages to go with them, buy the mainstream releases. > > - Jordan I don't know if growing the CD set to 6 CD's will really make more people happier. Maybe splitting the packages and distfiles into a add-on set similar to the toolkit would work better. Then 2 or 6 CD sets could be made available with the ports/package CD's updated more frequently if necessary. From my perspective, i.e. from a well connected network, only the first two CD's are useful. The first thing I do is set up cvsup and bring down the latest ports. I'd be just as happy buying a 2 CD set, even if the price was the same or only marginally lower. i.e. It is actually worth something to me to not get the extra CD's. (I'm a closet Green Party member. ;-) Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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