Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

[Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>]

So spracht the original creator of the idea...

On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:45:42PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> Note that todays technology eliminates the need for a ftp hierarchy that
> resembles the architectural design of our software hierarchy. Most people
> are accessing packages through apt, web interface or similar.
> 
> So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are
> simply a packages file with the relevant constellation.

Makes a lot of sense, but that also means making apt mandatory.
Are we ready for this step?

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