Matthew Hambley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big. > The fact that every user who does an "apt-get update" is pulling well over > a meg each time one package in it changes can not be good. It's a waist of > Debians server resources and it's certainly not swift over a 56k modem. > > Is there a good reason for keeping all these packages in one section or is > it just that no one has thought about it before?
It's been discussed for a long time. For example: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=633 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01081.html and so on... -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
