Re: Debian Distribution getting too big?
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> > A differently organized mirroring strategy comes to mind, where thepackagaes
> > most often downloaded get distributed further down the hiracy of mirrors and
> > the seldomly used stuff stays on a few servers. The numbers are there. What
> > about it?
> As long as people are conscientious about using web proxies Debian
> doesn't really need a large number of mirrors. But since people aren't
> conscientious.. ftp-master could stop public distribution and only push to
We proxies have serious problems when used with .debs, usually it
requires substantial configuration to get good results. There are many
reasons not to use them.
What is really needed is a debian specific http proxy that knows to
actively go and seek out new downloads based on the learned behavoirs of
the users behind it. This is fairly involved, but still quite doable.
Jason
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