> > the other dselect acquisition methods, to prevent user confusion. > > Optimally, I think acquisition methods should be folded out from dpkg > > itself (that would get rid of a *lot* of dpkg bugs, BTW). See > > Bug#32595. > > I don't think it's fair to get rid of the floppy method. Yes, I doubt hardly > anyone ever uses it, but if you have no other way, you have to use it. The > rest we can certianly lose.
If you read /usr/doc/apt/offline* there is a formulae for using APT effectively with a floppy. IMHO the floppy method is vastly inferior to this technique given the current size of Debian. Jason
