Re: Still no base tarball
Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net> writes:
> What if I bought the CDs and now I want to `ship it' to my other 1 or 2 home
> machines, which doesn't have a CDROM drive and need installing base via
> floppies?
Then, obviously, you won't be able to use the CDs to install with.
> IMHO base is useful in some cases and should be shipped on the CD.
> If it is on the archive, why not ship it on the CDs?
I disagree. On this hypothetical machine you mention, you cannot
access the CD from the machine, so what is the point of shipping base
on the CD?
Adding basedebs.tgz to CD#1 would be a flagrant waste of space.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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