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Date:      Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:43:14 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: huge distfiles policy
Message-ID:  <20120930074314.013e793a@scorpio>
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:15:01 -0700
Kevin Oberman articulated:

> CDROMs are not getting bigger, but the size of disks just continue to
> increase.

However, DVD's can easily handle a paltry 1.4GB. All modern systems
come with DVD's so perhaps it is time to embrace progress and move
forward with our thinking and not chain ourselves to the past.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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