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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:09:37 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP:  gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020924120937.A30626@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020924185739.GF2009@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>; from stijn@win.tue.nl on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:57:39PM %2B0200
References:  <200209241843.g8OIh9uO089468@arch20m.dellroad.org> <m3r8fjdxuy.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20020924185739.GF2009@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:57:39PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:52:05PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> writes:
> > > Megabytes are cheap and getting cheaper, while people's time and
> > > frustration are expensive and getting more expensive...
> >=20
> > I beg to differ. Modem (V.90) links will still benefit from saved
> > megabytes, because a MB across a modem takes like three minutes.
> >=20
> > MByte =3D> Time =3D> Cost.
>=20
> Don't forget the amount of packages on the distributed cd's.
>=20
> Although this restriction of space will probably disappear in time again
> with the rise of the DVD-ROM.

Not really.  The FreeBSD Services double DVD set isn't all that far from
not having space for all the packages on one disk.  You can't fit both
packages and port source on one disk.

-- Brooks

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