Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb
This brings up a subject that was discussed/argued about on devel a few months
ago. That idea was to seperate the different parts(contrib and non-free) into
seperate sites. While at the time this seemed like it might be a bad idea, by
seperating the parts, we could have different sets of mirrors so one site
doesn't need to mirror all parts. How large is main at this point? I HOPE it's
not going to get TOO big for mirroring. The same applies to contrib, and
non-free as well as non-US. It's only when a mirror carries ALL of Debian that
it gets out of hand.
Dave Bristel
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 01:43:42 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
> To: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb
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> On 18 Oct 1999, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> > Do we really need a 47MB file that will be useful to maybe 10 people
> > using Debian (at most) ? We already fill 5+ CDs...
>
> On the same subject, the Debian archive is now 10.8G in size, at the
> current rate of growth a majority of the mirrors will likely stop
> mirroring non-i386 by the end of next year and if things continue in two
> release time we will be like 20G big and we won't even be able to mirror
> it ourselves!
>
> We badly need to prune stuff and be more efficient.
>
> Jason
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