On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 01:43:42AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > We badly need to prune stuff and be more efficient. This means restraint. There is a desire to package anything and everything that might be useful to someone, but quite frankly I think that we need to go through the package list, and remove stuff. lots of stuff. stuff that we determine just doesn't need to be there. we can put it somewhere other than main, or just dump it. either way, we need to reduce the size of the distribution that is sold in CD format (5 CDs? i know we have source but this is getting absurd!) and trim the mirrored portion of the archive (we need to decide what exactly should be mirrored, which is another advantage to more stringently regulate what goes in main. Debian _is_ bloated. This is a good thing, and it also really sucks. We need to find a balance between offering users choice and variety of applications, and maintaining a sane ftp archive and keeping the number of CDs reasonable (four at maximum I would think.) Some stuff just doesn't need to be distributed to everyone when its use is so narrow in scope. Andrew -- Andrew G. Feinberg agf@debian.org andrew@ultraviolet.org Pager: 1-888-950-5050 PIN 6093780 PGP: 0xDBE2B5E9 / 78 55 2B B4 A7 B2 96 FF 84 BA 4A 3F 23 82 DD 80
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