Previously Marco d'Itri wrote: > This is wrong. main/non-US is still part of main. A couple of people have made that point by now, so I guess I have to admin that technically main would still be consistent. > The CD sold in the US would not be self contained, but having to > download the non exportable packages is still better than having to > download them AND the packages depending on them. I disagree here. Personally I would be very annoyed if I got a CD (an official CD even) and then discover that there are packages in main that don't work. The frustration that can gave greatly outweighs the fact that you save people a couple of minutes of download time. > It would not. Out of the USA there are no cheap CD resellers, so nobody > would make main+non-US/main CDs and users would have to download even > exportable packages. So you want us to be influenced by the current market situation? If those resellers are so great how hard would it be for them to make a main-US+main-non-US CD and sell that to US citizens? Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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