Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats
Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> The problem also isn't our machines but some mirror in
> low-diskspace-land.
The amount of disk it takes to carry a complete Debian copy is simply
going to be increasing. We have to tradeoff dropping a mirror or two
against the costs of weakening the distribution by leaving out
important things.
(And really, data about which mirrors would be dropped would help:
maybe we can buy *them* a disk. Disks are cheap!)
>> Mirrors that don't want to carry the additional arch shouldn't have
>> to; this should be easy to arrange.
>
> Given the recent mail about the mirror split this seems to finaly get
> started. So far all primary mirrors HAD to carry all archs.
Yes, this has been a long time in coming and I'm glad that it has
begun to move.
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