Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:39:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org, dyson@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pgcc port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960927092240.4400D-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <17646.843785742@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > CD1: Distributions, Docs, Installation tools > CD2: Live Filesystem, CVS repository, CTM base deltas > CD3: ports + distfiles > CD4: packages > > Though I'm also more afraid that CD3 and CD4 are going to look like: > > CD3: ports + distfiles > CD4: more distfiles + packages > > Since the distfiles are getting huge. With a package, we're only > storing the bits we need for FreeBSD, so that's less demanding > (but still pretty big!). I think you should come out with 4 CD's. That's what Linux distributors already do for a long time. You get many many GNU and other mirrors, so the product glances with many many sources. According to the GNU GPL, source _has_ to be offered on the medium and many people follow the GPL. > Longer-term, I dunno. We may have to spin the ports collection off as > another product entirely since it's going to start needing 4 CDs all > by itself before we know it! :-( Could happen ;-)) But the competitor (Linux), for example SuSE here in Germany, does already sell 4 CD-Roms for a long time at an attrative price. -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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