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Re: Discussion - non-free software removal



On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:55:41PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 20:43, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Let me first turn that around and ask you: what does it harm Debian and
> > Debian users?  Is it that hard to change a few characters in sources.list?
> 
> many of the packages will not be apt-get'able if they are not on
> debian's mirror network, because people will not be able to handle the
> bandwidth requirements.  I remember when johnie ingram had to stop

Wait a minute.  All we need is one high-bandwidth mirror to be primary. 
This could be a place like metalab, archive.progeny.com, VA, or any number
of other options.  The primary server doesn't have to be that
high-bandwidth.

All this, of course, neglects the contrib idea, which wouldn't require any
extra servers at all.



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