On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 12:21 PM, Ben Reser wrote:
Yes, please! Get another few hundred Club subscribers and maybe we can do something... =)Olivier, You're missing the point. If we do that then people will expect us to always provide updates to contrib. If a volunteer contributor doesn't feel like updating a package that leaves it to vdanen to do. vdanen has to do updates for main for the following platforms: 7.2/x86, SNF, 8.0/x86, 8.1/x86, 8.2/x86, 9.0/x86, 8.0/ppc, 8.2/ppc, 8.1/ia64What you're asking for is impossible. He works his ass off just to get the above platforms done. To double the amount of possible packages he would have to worry about just isn't feasable. Now if everyone here wants to pitch in and come up with some cash so vdanen can get someone to help him do security updates on a full time basis, then things might be different. But I really don't see that happening.
Further updates already takes up 5.3G on the mirrors. Adding updatesI didn't even think of this, and yes, this is a very real issue. Thanks for pointing that out, Ben. Didn't even cross my mind.
would only increase the size of that even greator. Making it too big is
very likely to cause mirrors to stop carrying it. And then you could
run into problems even getting updates for main.
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