Re: Freeze Arches
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 06:51:51PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> What about developers with metered phone bills? If I tried to download all the
> source and binaries from unstable it would take ages and cost me lots. I would
> prefer the option to buy on CD.
Me too, you bet.
> Those working on other archs (i am a i386 man) probably feel the same way. I
> mean, what if they hose their system, at least they have most of the packages
> on CD.
That's the exact reason.
Someone (Guy?) mentioned reasonable offers for developer snapshot.
Unfortunately I cannot agree on that. The only offer available in Germany
the last time I checked (4 months ago) was 80DM for 2 CDs. Given that we now
need at least 5 or 6 (including source) this would go up to 240DM. ANd to be
useful a developers CD should be out once a month or at least every two
months. So we're talking about so significantg money I started thinking
about download again.
Michael
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