On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 03:11:50PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
| On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:50:34AM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Esca?o wrote:
| > On 9/1/06, Madars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > >...I do trust the packages that are on the CDs, but as
| > >space is limited, you can't put all of them there.
| > Does the OpenBSD project consider the use of DVD to distribute the
| > package set on a per architecture basis?
| > IMHO can be in line with the project's objective of distributing the
| > OS (and packages?) in CD (or in this case, DVD) sets to support the
| > project.
| > On the buyer's side, it guarantees the reliability/authenticity of the
| > packages; on the project's side, it's a new way of distributing OS
| > support applications.
|
| Now *that* would suck. Most of my i386 boxes won't read a DVD, and I'm
| fairly certain that getting a sparc to read a DVD isn't as easy as
| making a i386 do the same.
Actually, with a scsi DVD drive, you can just as easily have DVD
access on amd64, mips, sparc, sparc64, alpha, macppc and probably
others. And archs supporting usb, can probably access DVD drives just
as easily. (I've had a DVD drive attached to i386, mips, sparc64 and
alpha .. just works)
<not a request, just an opinion>
I wouldn't mind (actually be in favour of; willing to pay more for)
having a DVD in the CD-set with packages for multiple archs.
</not a request, just an opinion>
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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