Filip Bartmann wrote:
Why isn,t one package with other packages in tar archive(as package
lfs-packages.tar) for BLFS?
The reasons I can think of:
1. No one builds every single package, so downloading a tarball would
waste bandwidth.
2. The tarball would be almost 2GB in size for the SVN version and
still wouldn't be complete because of software packages with
licensing/redistribution issues.
3. When one single package is updated, a new tarball must be created,
forcing every LFS mirror to download a 2GB file again.
I am sure there are more, but need more caffeine first before I can
think. ;) So basically, it is impractical.
Justin
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