Re: language-specific packages
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?
because a) i have multiple machines which need to be updated, b) i build
machines for many different purposes for many different people and
organisations, and c) i don't want to wait an hour or two for the
packages to download, i want them already on my local disk when I have
time to do the upgrade.
> Don't complain to us about it when the archive is too big
> for you.
so, it's too much to ask that things be organised to make it
easy to filter out stuff that isn't wanted?
how silly of me not to realise that. any useful feature which doesn't
cause any harm to anyone else is guaranteed to be flamed by some
fuckwit. this IS debian, after all.
craig
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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
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