From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 3:13:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD8237BCD5 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (24.28.73.209) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:13:29 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Archive pruning Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:13:28 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.41] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: current@freebsd.org References: <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org> <00042422091401.16303@nomad.dataplex.net> <200004250349.XAA37420@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200004250349.XAA37420@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042505132800.02416@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > You confuse the argument for SOME complete repositories with > > the necessity that ALL (or at each most) repositories be so extensive. > > You're welcome to remove whatever history you like from your personal > copy. Not if I want to keep the recent history up to date. The distribution tools don't support that. > It's not worth the effort to the project as a whole to save a > small amount of disk space. > > The CVS tree is currently 843 Mbytes, complete. Storage cost (even if > you buy SCSI disks) is about $16. With cheap disks, that's about $6. However, you are ignoring the cost of repeatedly (re)processing that (non)information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message