On Oct 18, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 12:21:15AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > >=20 > > Just found this huge file... > >=20 > > Do we really need a 47MB file that will be useful to maybe 10 people > > using Debian (at most) ? We already fill 5+ CDs... > > I am the maintainer of it. Sorry, but I think it is useful. I hoped to=20 > stimulate the final creation of a data section with this.=20
OK, so should I upload the MPEG of South Park's Eric Cartman singing "Stan's Mom is a Bitch" too? > BTW: This is a binary-all package which is only installed once. And I=20 > just noticed that SuSE has 6 CDs now - are we able to keep up? ;) No, it's installed twice: once for source, once for binary-all. That's the fundamental problem with "pure data" in Debian: it contributes to information entropy by taking twice the space to express the same information. I'll gladly write up a policy proposal that is implementable for a data section, eliminating the "double information" problem, now that you've so kindly demonstrated the need (by tying up my 56k link for several hours, I might add). Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Get Debian GNU/Linux CDROMs | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/ | | | | | Open Directory Editor | Your site belongs here. | | http://dmoz.org/ | [Commercialize your sig today!] | =============================================================================
