Re: new kernel/boot builders (fwd)
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Stuart Lamble <lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
> > It was almost certainly inevitable...maybe the distribution should move to
> > a source CD and a binary CD?
>
> Only if they are sold together. It's problematical with the licenses of
> some packages to sell the source separately.
>
> > Odds are, especially if several large programs get packaged up in the
> > future, Debian will find itself needing two or three CDs...
>
> This is what they call "an embarassment of ritches".
This day is not far away.
Debian 1.2 and 1.1.x both fill already one CD each almost completely.
Mike
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