Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

[Gerhard Poul <gp@office.atnet.at>]

Hi,

> NO!!  RFCs are *very* important when writing software.  They are the
> standards upon which a large amount of free software is based and are
> absolutely crucial to developers.  Why should they have to hunt the
> web for such stuff?

I think it's possible for _everyone_ to mirror (for example)
http://www.rfc-editor.org/categories/rfc-standard.html on his computer if he
wants these things.

There are also other ways to do it. (e.g. I have written a few scripts which
make it possible to keep a local 'cache' of rfc documents and if I need one
which is not in there it gets automatically fetched.)

I think everyone is able to find a solution for these day-to-day tasks.
These are not the problem a distribution should cover.

regards,
  gerhard