Re: Main breakup?
Matthew Hambley <matthew@aether.demon.co.uk> writes:
> It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big.
> The fact that every user who does an "apt-get update" is pulling well over
> a meg each time one package in it changes can not be good. It's a waist of
> Debians server resources and it's certainly not swift over a 56k modem.
>
> Is there a good reason for keeping all these packages in one section or is
> it just that no one has thought about it before?
It's been discussed for a long time. For example:
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=633
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01081.html
and so on...
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