On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 07:05:24PM +0800, Andrew Howell wrote: > Why is there gnome stuff inside the debian.org web tree? > > Same goes for SPI and Openhardware etc > > Gnome is what I'm mainly concerned about as my mirror fetches a LOT > of gnome stuff daily. > > Do mirror sites really need to fetch all this stuff? > I had a feeling one of the mirrors would raise this point eventually.
Basically, it was done this way because it is easy. Putting projects Debian^H^H^H^H^H^HSPI sponsors inside the Debian web directory means they automatically get mirrored with Debian. The gnome pages were only about 17MB last time I checked (although they do seem to make a lot of changes every day). I would prefer it if all the projects were inside of the spi pages since this more accurately reflects the political situation. Although as a practical matter, it is really Debian people that are sponsoring the projects. I just checked and it appears that none of the Debian sites are listed as web mirrors of gnome. Anyone have an idea who originally wanted us to set this up? Jay Treacy
