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To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
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Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs 
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:16:29 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> Just a heads-up:  The 4.0 CDs from WC don't seem to contain distfiles any mor
e 
> - the last two disks contain only packages (i.e. pre-compiled binaries).

That's because the number of packages got so large as to basically
kick the distfiles off.  We really need DVD to become more popular
in end-user machines and for the replication companies to be able to
cope with it. :)

- Jordan


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