In the past few days, I had (after some additions to the mirrors) to reinstall a couple of nodes, and all of them stopped dead after downloading 390 packages. MAXPACKAGES, in FAIBASE.var, was set to 200. Reducing MAXPACKAGES to 150 resulted in package counts going up to 324, but the installation finally succeeded. I have set MAXPACKAGES to 100 for future installs now, to be on the safe side, but I'm still worried - is this behaviour intentional? From a naive point of view, I'd expect the installer to cut the package list into chunks of maximally $MAXPACKAGES items, even after resolving dependencies... What would happen if there was an "include everything for a certain project" metapackage? Would even MAXPACKAGES=1 (or close to 1) fail to install?
Cheers, Steffen
