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Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs



Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> In fact, using 'dpkg -iGROEB' is much worse:

You forgot another important one: it's *horribly* slow. I actually used
the ftp method and mounting a cdrom where ftpd could get it for a while
to speed things up.

> I submit that they *must* be removed from the boot-floppies and the
> *must* be taken out of harms way.  Therefore, they must be removed
> from dpkg.  If someone wants to split the pacakge, great.

I have to say we are very far in the deep-freeze to consider breaking
the dpkg-packge apart..

Wichert.

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