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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:10:03 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why are Included Packages shrinking
Message-ID:  <3F0F51DB.4080406@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <1466.207.173.222.155.1057965460.squirrel@email.relia.net>
References:  <1466.207.173.222.155.1057965460.squirrel@email.relia.net>

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Joseph Lewis wrote:
> Is there a reason that none of the release people want to include any of the
> default dist files?  I work on a few machines online all the time, and also
> one or two offline.  But that just means that I have to take a chance of
> missing a prerequisite when I download a port file.  Why not just include the
> common ones on the CD like used to be done?  (Such as Apache, DHCPD, etc)

You might try burning /usr/ports/distfiles to a CD, possibly with 
/usr/ports/packages.  A more interesting question would be to figure out how to 
identify and cache ~600 MB worth of distfiles and keep that up-to-date over time....

-- 
-Chuck




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