On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:23:13 +0100 Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 00:29:22 schrieb Richard Atterer: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:17:03PM +0100, Uwe Bugla wrote: > > [Uh - huge quote snipped. If you want people to read what you wrote, don't > > precede it with screens of other text...] > > Dear Richard, > > My questions once more again: > > a. Is it one big resource of thousands of single Debian package files .jigdo > and .template are pointing to OR Yes. > > b. Is it an ISO image .jigdo and .template are receiving their data from > during download? That was in discussion some time ago to reduce disk seek on servers. > > c. If the answer is (a), can we, according to Steve's question, stop hosting > all ISO images to reduce traffic? > > If not, where is the technical necessity to keep them for Internet download > as > long as there are far more better download procedures like jigdo for > instance? For download via jigdo, you need a jigdo-client. Not everybody has one, especially users of other OSs, and for some reasons it may be a barrier for using debian, if you need to download a jigdo-client first. Dirk.
