Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:01:09 -0800 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Proposal for CD reorganisation for 4.0 Message-ID: <20000213170109.V60507@shale.csir.co.za>
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Hi, I was thinking (I know, I know, I shouldn't do that, it's bad for me ;)... Since we now have 3000+ ports, what are the chances of getting a special "FreeBSD Ports Distfiles" CD-ROM subscription set, which would just contain the distfiles? Since this set would be fairly low maintainance (just dump a copy of the FTP site onto CD :) it could be released at a low cost and with a fairly frequent update interval. I'm sure plenty of people would go for something which worked out to around $5 per month, including a lot of Linux people, since the CD would not have anything specific to FreeBSD on it. NetBSD and OpenBSD people should also be interested. This would also make the 4.0 set easier to get onto 4 disks, and it would do out of date slower (since the packages are prebuilt for that snapshot of -CURRENT). Another advantage is that we might be able to get rid of some NO_CDROMs, since the distfiles CD set would be around the cost of the media. Regards, -Jeremy -- | If I was not so weak, if I was not so cold, --+-- If I was not so scared of being broken, growing old, | I would be. I would be... frail. | - jars of clay / much afraid / frail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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