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Re: language-specific packages



On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:55:42AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> as an english speaker (with an ADSL connection that costs 13.9 cents per
> megabyte above 3GB - i.e. $139 per gigabyte), i have no interest in my
> local mirror script downloading doc packages spanish, french, russian or
> other languages....and i'm sure that, e.g., spanish speakers have no
> interest in downloading german or russian or whatever, either.

If your internet connection is such a rip-off, why are you running a
full mirror? Don't complain to us about it when the archive is too big
for you.

Use something selective like apt-proxy instead.



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