Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Large Packages files take a long time to download - not everyone has
> broadband. Large Packages files take much memory and processor time to
> process - not everyone has a fast computer with hundreds of megabytes of
> memory.
Agreed, not everyone has those things.
> Installers aren't all that great. They are, however, a better idea than
> having potentially hundreds of magazine issue packages in Debian.
That may be true if you have limited computer and network
resources. With plenty of RAM and network bandwidth, I believe that
installers are a very poor choice compared to having issue packages in
Debian.
In deference to folks who don't have broadband access or plenty of RAM
in their systems, I'm withdrawing my ITP to package phrack. This
e-mail closes that ITP bug against wnpp.
> (Even better, in my opinion, would be to set up a better distribution
> system for such things than Debian. Something where, for example, you
> don't store the files twice -- once in the source package, once in the
> .deb -- would be a good start.)
That sounds a lot like a source-based, rather than binary-based,
distribution to me.
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