Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:46:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: rkw@dataplex.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Re(2): Standard Shipping Containers - A Proposal for Distributing FreeBSD Message-ID: <199605172046.NAA20649@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605171439.IAA27118@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 17, 96 08:39:22 am
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> > 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.
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