Re: Packaging _still_ wasteful for many large packages

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Steve McIntyre may or may not have written...

[snip]
> I know of nobody here trying to follow testing or unstable via dialup:

I do.

> it would take too long

Updates are normally done once or twice per week here. I'm using apt-proxy
for two machines running testing (one of which also has an pbuilder unstable
tarball) and one running stable. Packages and sources lists are fetched via
rsync.

> and cost too much[1]

0p/minute helps ;-)

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