Re: Show me the freaking money
George Bonser wrote:
> On 21 Aug 1997 john@win.bright.net wrote:
>
> > This is the part that baffles me. Do you really believe that users
> who
> > won't buy 1.3.1 because 1.3.2 is out will buy 1.3 revision 1 after
> 1.3
> > revision 2 comes out?
>
> I think the idea is, you buy the 1.3 CDROM and pick up the revisions
> from
> the net. Just like Caldera does. In other words, maybe debian should
> just
> put the updates in a directory called 1.3-updates and not use symlinks
> to
> point updates packages to the updates from the base 1.3 tree. This
> would
> make mirroring easier as the 1.3 tree would (in theory) never change
> and
> mirrors would only have to keep the 1.3-updates directory up to date.
> Users would install the 1.3 installation then add the 1.3-updates
> instead
> as the sub-distribution to check for updated packages. In this way,
> if a
> distribution goes defunct and is replaced, only the X.x-updates
> directory
> needs to be left around for people that might want to update a disk
> that
> is a couple of revs behind current.
This is an excellent idea. It is straightforward and makes much more
sense from the point of view of actual users whose primary concern is a
working system.
Dave Neuer
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