Re: Size of Debian a Problem? Forget it!
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:26:22PM +0000, Alexander Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 19 October 1999 16:00:41 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > Bandwidth is more expensive than hardware. But I suppose that doesn't
> > matter to you ...
> >
> > Besides, mirrors are DONATING their hardware AND bandwidth. It's not
> > like I'm obligated to you to provide a service.
>
> Just right. All you say.
>
> > Have you any idea what it costs to
> > transfer a few gigs a day at high speeds?
>
> Hardly.
>
> Someone else please wake up... you have not enough of an
> idea what bandwidth is like and how much it costs.
> Especially in Germany. I am working at an ISP and we have
> much higher prices but if I tell anyone we are running a
> mirror, I would get some gb traffic a day, i am rather sure.
>
> I have to pay for it as it is my private box. Now, some
> universities do a mirror, sure. But the attitude of "you
> do a full mirror and don't argue" is, sorry, arghful.
>
> I vote for kicking that stuff out of Debian and building
> up some apt-usable thingy like data.debian.org. It's too
> much for a normal user. Are not many ppl talking about too
> many packages anyway? They are right.
>
> A data section is fine, sure. But I rather say we should
> create it and drop the stuff bigger than 10 mb.
No more X then, ...
nore Tex and other usefull stuff, not even kernel packages.
I think it is not that easy, ...
But still we more or less agreed that a separate data place would be fine,
just nobody got forward and made it.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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