Re: Akkerman's idea of nonfree.debian.org
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> As a (busy) mirror maintainer, I can assure you that you are wrong.
> Most users get packages from the mirrors, and the mirrors aren't going
> to split off new hostnames. The distinction is an "official" one, made
> on the "official" debian server(s).
>
> Therefore this is a political statement rather than a technical one; one
> which will have little effect on end users, IMO.
Well carefull with that, ftp.debian.org very likely gets more traffic then
all the mirrors combined (judging by my stats at leastt), so even though
you might recombine non-free that only effects a small percentage of
users. I think the number of users that find non-free has gone missing
from their favorite mirror will be much larger than those who don't.
If we wanted to make a politcal statement then people would vote for the
'official.debian.org' choice
Jason
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