From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 18 16:39:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptialaska.net (mail.ptialaska.net [198.70.245.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EEE37B635 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vizion@ptialaska.net) Received: from vizion2000 (dialups-71.sitka.ptialaska.net [198.70.227.71]) by ptialaska.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07897; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:39:08 -0800 (AKDT) Message-ID: <001401bfa98f$16acbce0$47e346c6@demon.co.uk> From: "Southwell" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Brian Somers" Cc: "Gregory Bond" , , References: <200004182143.WAA00514@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:37:34 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Disposition-Notification-To: "Southwell" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep I just bought the new set and was a bit upset when I found the distfiles were missing -- Seems to me, that at a minimum, it would have been better to have known about the change before ordering rather than afterwards. More appropriately the number of CDs could have been increased from 4 to 5 -- The set is not expensive- so an appropriate price increase would have been no obstacle.. after all people buy the CD when they do not have access to a high speed connection. Does this mean that we are permanently limited to a maximum of 4 CDs to a collection..dare I say that even MS do not set such arbitrary limits!! It feel as though this issue could have been better handled whilst at the same time I would like to say a sincere thank you to those who put this issue together.But as a result of this I would grade the result as B- (i.e. -Good but please do better next time!! ;-) David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Somers" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Gregory Bond" ; ; Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message