On Sam, 2003-02-15 at 11:42, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:46:19PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:55:42AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > as an english speaker (with an ADSL connection that costs 13.9 cents per > > > megabyte above 3GB - i.e. $139 per gigabyte), i have no interest in my > > > local mirror script downloading doc packages spanish, french, russian or > > > other languages....and i'm sure that, e.g., spanish speakers have no > > > interest in downloading german or russian or whatever, either. > > > > If your internet connection is such a rip-off, why are you running a > > full mirror? Don't complain to us about it when the archive is too big > > for you. > > Maybe. But looking more generally at his idea, it strikes me as a good > idea worth talking about. As long as it's clear that it is not an option for public mirrors to just carry a subset of languages. I'm sure all the arguments have been made about mirrors carrying only some of the architectures... cheers -- vbi -- featured product: the GNOME desktop - http://gnome.org
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