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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:56:31 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        phk@ref.tfs.com, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Building off a CDROM
Message-ID:  <199504250656.QAA20127@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> Is it likely that there will be space on the next CD for an unpacked version 
>> of the system sources? I'm contemplating my ever-decreasing disk space and 
>> thinking that something like the union filesytem and sources mounted off a CD 
>> would be a good thing, particularly if patches would end up just replacing the 
>> visible copy from the CD.

>We have always had the sources unpacked on the CD.

Aren't we planning to fix this in 2.1? :-)  Add enough ports and there will
no longer be room.  (I like bloat in ports but not in src.)

>UNIONFS is broken :-(  but you can make a linkfarm...

Fixing unionfs would be a good project.

Bruce



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