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Re: Upcoming Debian Releases



Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:

> That sounds painful to the vast majority that uses CD-ROMs or
> network connections. Better idea: have a separate directory
> tree (floppy) in parallel to stable.

Keeping multiple copies of big packages in the archive is tremendously
wasteful.

> Even better idea: provide
> a tool to create arrange files onto floppies.

Such a tool already exists - dpkg-split.


Guy

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