Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:52:30 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: gnb@itga.com.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <200004180652.XAA29866@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 17, 0 09:16:29 pm"
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As I recall, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. :) Or, to remove the distfiles from the "standard" subscription, and make them a subscription of their own. If that were to be done, I'd also suggest that those distfiles that cannot be included on a CD-ROM because of copyright issues be clearly collected under a directory that held only URLs to those distfiles, and that there be provided a shell script that would collect them. This would make it easier for someone to lay hands on all the distfiles at any point in time coinciding with a matching release, and to burn a private CD-ROM to go with the release. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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