From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 18 15:38:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682F437BC46 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24435; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:37:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00514; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:43:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200004182143.WAA00514@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:16:29 PDT." <3469.956031389@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:43:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message