From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 29 03:29:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA02993 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA02987 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA03498; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:29:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA00247; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:30:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:30:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh.. Time to take another look at the packages collection! In-Reply-To: <8460.875510079@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 1. Come up with a "reduced set" of packages which we'll provide that > way, the goal being to provide 650MB or less of "quality" packages > rather than going for the kitchen-sink approach. The cutoff line for what gets included and what not could be based on current ftp transfer stats, rather than trying to go through each one and make a subjective decision. This would have to account for some packages being significantly larger than others. Requests per kb, or something.... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk