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Date:        Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:04:33 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs
Message-ID:  <20000418100433.A1739@student.csd.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:16:29PM -0700
References:  <200004180308.NAA15105@lightning.itga.com.au> <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 09:16:29PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 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. :)
> 


Thanks for the warning. Now I won't bother to get the 4.0 CDs since one of
my major reasons for getting them was to get a (reasonable) up-to-date set
of distfiles. (Downloading large distfiles over a 33.6K modem is not fun.)


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