Re: Main breakup?
In message <[🔎] 87admsl8au.fsf@scabbers.bignachos.com>
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> wrote:
> Matthew Hambley <matthew@aether.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big.
> > The fact that every user who does an "apt-get update" is pulling well
> > over a meg each time one package in it changes can not be good. It's a
> > waist of Debians server resources and it's certainly not swift over a
> > 56k modem.
> >
> > Is there a good reason for keeping all these packages in one section or
> > is it just that no one has thought about it before?
>
> It's been discussed for a long time. For example:
[snip]
So I see but after just spending another 13m on-line just to find out that
a single package needs to be upgraded I am left wondering why all this
discussion hasn't turned into action.
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