Re: [debian-devel] Re: Ancient architecture

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Steve Greenland 

| On 31-Mar-04, 18:24 (CST), Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> wrote: 
| > 
| > If you run unstable, well, then you run unstable.  If you run unstable
| > and whine about bandwidth usage, then unstable isn't for you.  
| 
| Sure. You know, developers are pretty much expected to run unstable.

You're expected to build stuff on unstable, at least, yes.

| > Or you can check the changelogs on packages.debian.org, or something
| > like that.
| 
| Did you even read the next paragraph of my reply? You know, the one you
| deleted, where I talked about checking changelogs, and how doing it for
| more than few packages (e.g. xfree, libc, tex, and other monsters) isn't
| all that much fun.

Then you write a tool to check those for you.  It's not a hard thing
to do if you care about it.  You could probably sort it on size of the
download or something like that as well..

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