Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:10:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>, jabley@patho.gen.nz, dom@happygiraffe.net, brian@awfulhak.org, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, lee@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003210002500.35782-100000@jake.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003210958530.14900-100000@enya.clari.net.au>
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > That's my feeling. It's especially sad to twiddle one's thumbs and listen > to the disk crunching while it unpacks the korean, japanese, russian, > graphics and many other ports sections which I am never going to use. > Repeating the exercise for all the ISPs in the world would be suboptimal, > to say the least. I think you might have kind of hit the nail on the head here... If I live in the UK (oh, I do, that's handy!) do I really need the ispsetup files for the rest of the world if I know my hardware is never going there? I think it might be an idea to try and seperate it up. Perhaps have a ports-like system where the relevant files for a given country are downloaded only when a user goes into /usr/ports/ispestup/XX where XX is a standard country code, and types make install. Then, the ispsetup files are copied to wherever on the system automagically. If we assume that there are only about a hundred countries that would be in here, it would be equivalent to downloading 2 or maybe 3 of the larger sections of ports, without having to get everything. This means I and you don't have to sit and wait for all the national and regional ISPs for Turkey to be downloaded unless we plan to take our laptop to Turkey. Is it just me, or does this sort of make sense? I somehow think that the initial distribution will be relatively small, but still retains all the usability required to be able to get all the required information reasonably quickly. A tie-in to /usr/ports seems sensible to me, but what do I know? :) Just my 2euros worth. :) -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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