Re: Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Paul Slootman wrote:

> On Mon 13 Mar 2000, Stephen Zander wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes:
> >     Joseph> Only 6000?  We must be getting lazy.  6000 is way too
> >     Joseph> easy.  Better try for 8000.
> > 
> > Now one ever thought the Dow would break 10k: took 'em 10yrs to get
> > from 3k to there.  I'm sure we can do it in 2yrs (which is about when
> > woody will be out, right? :))
> 
> I still think we should be honest and report the number of source
> packages, not binary packages; e.g. I find the following all parts of

We can report both...

Overrides covers the binary packages and Sorces covers the source
packages, right?

> just one package:
> 
>     glibc-doc
>     i18ndata
>     libc6
>     libc6-dev
>     locales
> 
> It _is_ useful to be able to install these separate parts, of course...
> 
I've been working on a selective source building script, so I know just
what you mean.

Luck,

Dwarf
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