Re: debian installer (an idea)
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> More than that, I would love to have unstable and testing release
> shipped with normal debian CDs.
I think that's a very bad idea; they aren't properly QA'ed (insofar as
we do QA; certainly they have a good chance of not being installable)
and they aren't security-supported.
> Why not to use the same compact loopback device that knoppix have to
> mount the disks filesystem?. This way we could have 3 times more soft
> in the same space, just what it's needed.
.deb files are already compressed. You can't go on compressing things
forever.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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