Josip Rodin wrote: > Yes, there is. The debian-cd mirrors on our list are very diverse: some have > 2.2r*, some have 3.0r*, some don't have full ISOs at all. Expecting > debian-www team to start making grossly hackish scripts to compensate for > whatever the hell people put in debian-cd/ directories on their sites, or > maintain separate lists of sites that have debian-cd organized properly, > that is just unreal.
So you define what a debian cd mirror should have, and mark all incomplete mirrors as such (with a scanning program), and don't use them for this purpose. An inconsistent mirror network can be worse than no mirror network at all. > (Especially, I should note, when it's basically going to help not only some > honest people who just got confused, but also give a false sense of easyness > to a bunch of people who really shouldn't be installing Debian in the first > place since they have a total aversion to reading documentation.) Well, no, I have read plenty of documentation in the past, and that was an honest example of me trying to find an iso and how it just doesn't work. Sure, I was skimming the web pages quite fast. Everyone does. To tie back to the thread, maybe one reason we're possibly losing (new) users to gentoo is: - go to gentoo.org - "Gentoo Linux/x86" on left hand side - click on link directly to directory on ibiblio.org with an iso on it Another reason might be evidenced by the finger pointing, insults/elitism, and probably lack of any action at all I just got from a developer in response to a valid complaint. -- see shy jo
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