From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 4 00:54:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA20658 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@nepal-2.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.8.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA20653 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:54:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01391; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:54:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:54:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Michael Smith cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some thoughts and ideas, and quirks In-Reply-To: <199708040744.RAA20987@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > It could just be that the bindist is compressed more, and your output > stream is the limiting factor. If you're using an IDE disk and a > moderately fast CPU this is not unrealistic. But I'm not. I'm using a 2940UW with a few average drives on a p166. But speed did vary wildly sometimes anyways. > Speaking as someone that's had to download the bindist over a slow and > unreliable link far too many times without the benefit of ftp reget, > the small files are a huge bonus. That's exactly the reason I suggested the smallish packages. It makes it easier to get your system working, so you can then attempt to download only what you need. Who knows someone may have a use for a gcc less system. - alex, who pleads the fifth