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Re: ITP: mencal -- A menstruation calendar



On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:38:50PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:42:30PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> > But then maybe I'm wrong, and Debian will bloat to 1000G then to 100T and so forth
> > until it collapses under its own weight. A weight composed not of bit building
> > blocks that need to be there or specialized building blocks that make lives
> > of many people easier (eg. iraf) but because of a lump useless little scripts
> > that could be written in a few minutes (or hours if you don't know what you are
> > doing). But then maybe someone could also use a calculator to check how
> > much wear their tires take, or another one on how much their grass will grow by.
> > Please, let's keep the archive resonable.
> 
> I was always under the impression that Debian was the universal
> distribution of free software. If we want it like that, we've to add
> all free software which could be useful for somebody. That includes
> software which is only useful for 50% of the world.

< 0.50% would be my guess. But the point is to keep the archive
_accessable_ to the supported archs without the need for the latest
and greatest hardware. On a low end machine it is faster to compile
the kernel than to do an upgrade.


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