release two tarballs, one with the pre-fetched packages and one without;
Oh, FWIW, I think the tiny tarball without prefetch is still useful. Likely more useful. After all, that's what everyone is using now. Requiring people to run out of the dev repo just feels wrong. Anyway, 1.3gb is still pretty big. What are the biggest packages? Is that including Perl and Python, etc.? (Are those the "external dependencies")? Cheers, k
