On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:49:10 +0100 > Kai Grossjohann <kgrossjo@eu.uu.net> wrote: > > > > Beretta <invalid@invalid.org> writes: > > > > > How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's? > > > Are you planning on installing every single binary package there is? > > > > I don't know about you, but the idea of > > > > - buy CD 1 via mail order > > - wait a week for it to arrive > > - start Debian installation > > - want to install application X > > - find out which CD contains application X > > - buy CD Y via mail order > > - wait a week for it to arrive > > -... > > > > doesn't sound too exciting for me. Especially the "wait a week" bits. > > Yes, but why in the hell would you do that, either? Why wouldn't it > be: > > - buy CD 1 via mail order > - wait a week for it to arrive > - start Debian installation, which then completes itself over the network > after the base system is installed. The original mail contained the important condition "if you don't have a flatrate". As far as woody goes, I have a lot of packages installed, and there's several off each CD. That would have meant a lot of downloading - not necessarily all the CDs, but a lot of apt-getting. > > So, *if* somebody decides to buy via mail order, *then* surely > > anything but "the full set of all CDs" doesn't make sense. > > If you have some commitment to doing everything the hard way, > sure, I guess. Or if you have a metered connection. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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