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Re: Offer to take over maintenance of base-config



Ethan Benson wrote:
> i really fail to see why its acceptable to prevent dialup users from
> installing debian over the network, its nearly impossible to download
> hundreds of MB worth of packages without at least one timeout, one
> timeout is all thats needed for apt to bail on the install, once it
> does base-config happily removes all downloaded debs and you must
> start all over again

FWIW, I agree, which is why I have fixed bug #117741 in Incoming. This
does not address Ethan's wishlist bug report, of course.

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