On Wed, August 1, 2007 11:34 pm, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > For pkgsrc, why couldn't we just include a recent snapshot of /usr/pkgsrc > on the CD (much like how FreeBSD provides a snapshot of /usr/ports). The > tree that I updated last night is 387MB uncompressed, 195MB compressed.
I agree with this - not including pkgsrc shrinks the size of the download, but it's still 80-something meg, and you end up using the bandwidth anyway pulling pkgsrc down through anoncvs, which also requires a bunch of extra steps which are only documented in a few places.
