Re: A more useful way to split the distribution

On Sun, 08 Apr 2001 11:24, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Since people suddenly seem to be suffering from bandwidth concerns I
> have devised a new distribution split to address this issue. 

[  ...  snipping the many tarballs argument  ...  ]

For me and I expect many other folk on the edge of civilization it is a 
total PITA to have to fiddle around and download many separate tarball 
files. What I want is to be able to start a d/l going and then come back 
when it's finished and know that I have _everything_ I actually need to 
have a working and documented product in one shot. 

For developers, contributors and testers and I would like to suggest that 
an exact snapshot of the complete CVS source archive is appropriate.  We 
can then track the changes every day using cvs or cvsup - wonderful tool 
btw - 

What is really _really_ needed is a text README which explains exactly 
what file contains.

Personally I have found that the limitations of the packaging systems to 
be such a nuisence that I always compile everything from source.

-- 
Sincerely etc.,

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