Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>  writes:
>Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>> This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely.
>> 
>> So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all
>> distributions are simply a packages file with the relevant
>> constellation.
>
>This makes it impossible for people with just a few GB of disk space,
>but not 15, to mirror only the version of debian they are interested
>in.

I think this is a fatal flaw.  Many mirror sites cannot handle the
entire distribution (all architectures, all releases, and both binary
and source).

		- Jim Van Zandt