On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Guy Maor wrote: > > b looks like a reasonable solution, and would not be hard to > > implement. Of course, as you said, if only a handful of packages are > > affected, then it's less work to do c. > > Of course if we reed the Debian lessions (liw posted a URL for that > recently) we know we have to consider that things grow in the future. > It's not totally unreasonable to expect Linux and HURD will not be the > only two systems in the future so we'll end up implementing (b) anyway > then. > > Maybe we can get an entry in the Guiness book of records for the archive > with the most symlinks?
What kind of proposals have come forth to somewhat flatten the ftp archives? If none have I have a few ideas in mind... -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org "...Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing..." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson