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Subject: Re: NO_PACKAGE and NO_CDROM
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * From my own perspective, with my puny link to the net, the multiple
 * collections approach is far superior.

But the ports collection is soooo small!  As I remember, the whole
ports tree (minus distfiles) was about 10MB.  This is smaller than
src/gnu/usr.bin/cc!  (If you have such a `puny' link and can't even
stand that, why are you supping -current? ;)

 * 					  All of the problems that have
 * been brought up are simple administrative problems and I think that
 * solving them is much easier than breaking the old collections and
 * answering all the resulting email.

Don't forget that failing to properly synchronize the sup targets will
bring up questions and/or ftp site inconsistencies.  And we have a
long history of not being able to handle that "simple" problem, not to
mention it has been quite a nuisance to maintain.  I'd rather spend
that time to do something more productive.

Anyway, I have said all I wanted to, it seems quite a few people agree
with me but if you really want it that way, well it's your call.  I
really don't care (myself anyway) if my machine and wcarchive can stay 
up-to-date by using cvs-all, and I'll recommend that to others too....

Satoshi