On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:38, Andy Armstrong wrote:

>> I like that solution better
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> But solution to what? Are we convinced there's actually a problem here?

CPAN has almost 200k files.  www.cpan.org says there are "17627 modules".  
rsyncing a gazillion files doesn't work that well (on the server).  Helping 
authors remember to delete things that are now irrelevant from the main CPAN 
system will make it easier to run mirrors and keep them fresh.


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