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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:12:59 -0700
From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Uh oh..  Time to take another look at the packages collection!
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On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 10:14:39PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> The FreeBSD-current packages collection currently requires 713MB, not
> counting the filename information itself (which, on CDs, is stored
> very wastefully and generally accounts for another 30-40MB in cases
> like this where you have hundreds of files).  I don't need to tell
> anyone here that 750MB does *not* fit on a single CD, and even with
> 4 CDs for 3.0 we're going to run into problems just organizing it.
> 
> So, as I see it, we have two alternatives:
> 
> 1. Come up with a "reduced set" of packages which we'll provide that
>    way, the goal being to provide 650MB or less of "quality" packages
>    rather than going for the kitchen-sink approach.
> 
> 2. Come up with a way of splitting the packages collection into multiple
>    pieces, each piece having its own INDEX file and such.
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> 					Jordan
> 

Why not split the packages into several groups roughly as follows;

        "foreign" language (Japanese, Chinese, etc.)
        Development (Devel, editors, Lang, etc.)
        ISP (Mail, Net, News, etc.)
        Graphical(X11, Tcl, Tk, graphics, etc.)
        Kitchen Sink (Everything else)

Just an off the the cuff answer.


Josef

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