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Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style



On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:29:09AM +0200, Diego Calleja Garc?a wrote:
> Take into account the time you waste compiling. What do you want to
> pay, bandwith or CPU usage? The answer isn't the same for everybody...
> (if we want to touch perfection)

Consider the amount of resources mirrors could save by only mirroring
the source code, and not binaries for 10+ platforms...

Of course there are downsides either way, but there is no dispute
that the size of the Debian archive is huge, and mirrors are struggling
to keep up as a result.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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