Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
> > which I will assume to be correct.
>
> how generous of you. you could have quibbled about every line of the
> directory listing i provided, but you restrained yourself - for that
> small mercy, i will be forever in your debt.
I wasn't being generous, just assuming you counted correctly. No
matter, if it's way more than that, it's still cheap.
> > Branden, could we afford to buy a couple 110 GB disks to hold this
> > increase?
>
> can debian afford to buy the same for every mirror too? or pay the
> bandwidth costs of about 100MB per debian release of each kernel
> version? at an average of 4 or 5 debian releases per kernel-image
> package, that's about 400 or 500MB per kernel version.
A mirror that only wants to carry the i386 packages can continue to
only carry the i386 packages. Nothing we do could compel them to
carry more.
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