From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 13:51:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA18302 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 13:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18291 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 13:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA20649; Fri, 17 May 1996 13:46:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605172046.NAA20649@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Re(2): Standard Shipping Containers - A Proposal for Distributing FreeBSD To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:46:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au In-Reply-To: <199605171439.IAA27118@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 17, 96 08:39:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Here is what's broken: > > > > 1) For the new sup user to get started, sup has to download > > the entire source tree, even though the user already has most > > of it from the tarball or the CD. > > This is the same way with *every* package on the net, including Linux. > Everytime you want to have the 'latest&greatest' sources, there is > always a penalty involved. Now, minimizing that penalty is worthy goal, > but calling it broken is using the wrong term. I agree with Nate. It's pessimal (hard to concieve of how to make it worse), but it's not broken. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.