Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-26 Thread Frankie
John Foster wrote: Maybe having another section of debian would be better: eg main,contrib,non-free,non-US,marginal. [I'm sure someone could come up with a better name than marginal :-)] Marginal would contain really large packages, or packages that very few people might want to

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-23 Thread John Foster
Maybe having another section of debian would be better: eg main,contrib,non-free,non-US,marginal. [I'm sure someone could come up with a better name than marginal :-)] Marginal would contain really large packages, or packages that very few people might want to use. If their popularity

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Richard Dansereau wrote: Hello all! I seem to remember a while back there was a discussion about whether or not to include some rather large packages (i.e. ones containing data, such as astronomical data) in the Debian releases. I think the main consensus was not to include these types of

Large .deb packages..

1999-06-17 Thread Richard Dansereau
Hello all! I seem to remember a while back there was a discussion about whether or not to include some rather large packages (i.e. ones containing data, such as astronomical data) in the Debian releases. I think the main consensus was not to include these types of large packages. I was