Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:25:43PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
> *Philippe Troin wrote:
> >
> > Just found this huge file...
> >
> > Do we really need a 47MB file that will be useful to maybe 10 people
> > using Debian (at most) ? We already fill 5+ CDs...
>
> Yes this is a problem. I just skimmed all of the proposed solutions (some of
> them follow). I have seen each of these proposals many times in the past
> 2.5 years. Some of the solutions have more merit than others.
> The only problem is, no one has implemented them.
>
> 1 data section
> 2 improved, or logical (flexible) package categories
> (This is related to sub-distributions of Debian.
> 3 bzip
> 4 improving multiple document format situation
> ( building docs at install, or somesuch.)
5 storing packages on mirrors based on priority too:
i.e. unstable/required/main
stable/extra/main
A deb line then might look like:
deb http://http.debian.org/debian/required main
This doesn't seem to me like it would be too difficult to implement. The
only changes would be in the sources.list file, and in the mirrors
themselves.
--
Colin Walters <levanti@verbum.org>
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