In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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: [snip] So I see but after just spending another 13m on-line just to find out that a single package needs to be upgraded I am left wondering why all this discussion hasn't turned into action. -- (\/)atthew )-(ambley ---------------\ If something's worth doing it's worth E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ doing badly until you can learn to Public key : C487AC52 \ do it well. Web : http://www.aether.demon.co.uk/ \----------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
