Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:12:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > > Bullshit. I can trivially provide evidence that building two copies
> > > > uses more disk space.
> > >
> > > Of course, but that doesn't impact users. They only need one copy.
> >
> > It does, however, affect the repository and its mirrors, proportionate
> > to the number of packages being built for multiple architectures.
>
> Yes. Disks are cheap.
Look at the big picture[1], and they most definitely are not.
[1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list for example
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2. That which causes joy or happiness.
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