Re: weekly policy summary
md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Jun 07, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
>
> >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.
> Maybe you don't pay for download time or/and have good cheap ISPs in
> your country.
If download costs are a problem, buy a non-US CD from a European CD
vendor.
> >> 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
> I want us to serve the best way our users.
Shipping CD's with broken dependencies is not a service to our users.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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