Re: Still no base tarball
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:44:50PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > See previous posting. I didn't realize that the tarball and the floppies
> > were two different sets of data. The floppy images is the most useful way
> > for these to be placed on the CD, although I could still make use of the
> > basedebs tarball.
>
> you have yet to state a single valid reason for placing the tarball on
> the CDs. keep in mind that adding the tarball to CD one means
> removing 24MB worth of real .debs, making CD1 less useful.
>
> floppy images are enough, there is no need for the tarball, if you
> decide you need one, download it, or use debootstrap to make on using
> CD1's package pool.
I thought that was what I just said...
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