On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 20:44 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > I was pondering about this problem as well and solved it for now by > adding a little button into the package description in synaptic that > fetches the thumbnail when clicked. Clicking on the thumb again gives > the big image. This ensures that casual browsing of the package list > does not generate network traffic on s.d.n > > I think even that will be quite a hit to screenshots.debian.net. I > imagine in the future it may make sense to have a package for this > (this was suggested already IIRC) so that the download bw is spread > over all the mirrors.
Local caching may also be an option. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
