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

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 popular

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 type