Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:43:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Message-ID: <200004182143.WAA00514@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:16:29 PDT." <3469.956031389@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. :)
So when is a DVD distribution likely to be plausible ? ;-)
> - Jordan
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