Hi OSCAR-devel, Sorry to sort of butt-in... > I've been wondering why more packages aren't in the step 0 aditional > packages, rather then in the growing tarball? > What about using the tarball to distribute only really core things, and > have everything else downloadable just in-time, or for the user to > mirror for their arch locally (by a script?) >From a purely bandwidth-related point fo view, I would really like to see this happen - it takes us over 36 hours to get an OSCAR tarball down to Cape Town... There are certain packages that we can do without, and would only add them just-in-time as you say, when users clamour. What is the minimum of packages that _have_ to be bundled with the trunk ?
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