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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:14:19 +0200
From:      Lauri Watts <lauri@kde.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HOLY COW! Ports grew by 130MB!
Message-ID:  <200204241614.19257.lauri@kde.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204240627390.37300-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204240627390.37300-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15.31, you wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Lauri Watts wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 April 2002 12.48, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >  72K    .
> >
> > 42 x 72K =3D 3ish megs total new stuff.
> >
> > Are you mirroring the entire cvs repository, instead of cvsupping? on a
> > 28.8 kb line? *why*?
> >
> > --
>
> because I move around and sometimes I have good connectivity and sometimes
> I don't, like right now.  Are you trying to actually justify this?

I was just asking, I couldn't understand why anyone would do such a thing. =
 =20
Now that it's been explained, I can see where it might be useful to someone=
=20
like yourself. =20

> Regardless of that I object to having my cvs mirror bloated by 130 MB
> because of this.. this was NOT a canidate for repo copy.
> they should have been individually been added corectly in the first place.
> and they should probably have been under a subdirectory at that..

They were split to save the people who need to install them (often on worse=
=20
bandwidth than even you have currently available) the requirement to downlo=
ad=20
the entire i18n tarball in order to just install one, when they are provide=
d=20
as separate distfiles anyway.  Very few people speak, for some random=20
examples, Swedish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Romanian, and Xhosa.

In any case, the old packing lists have been stripped in CVS, and so now=20
everyone should be reasonably happy, I think.

Regards,
=2D-=20
Lauri Watts

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