Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:46:42AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > * Goswin von Brederlow
> > > | The bandwith for buildds is a fixed price and already paid/sponsored.
> > > | Whats variable is the traffic.
> > >
> > > How can you say that? It might be on an ADSL line or something.
> >
> > Have fun building kde i18n. Its 200MB sources alone plus probably the
> > same for the debs. The buildd would probably spend more time
> > up/downloading than building.
>
> Have you ever built kde-i18n? When I last NMUed it it took something
> like nine hours for my laptop to build it, and my laptop isn't all
> *that* wimpy.
Not surprising given its a ~650 MB sources. Unpacking and packaing
alone will take hours on m68k I guess.
But an idle buildd is idel so no harm in him building it. On the other
hand you downloading 200 MB and uploading 400 MB with a 38400 modem
would realy hurt. Well not you but someone only having a 38400
connect.
MfG
Goswin
