On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Juergen A. Erhard wrote: > There's this current thread on the size of Debian's ftp archive > (started with someone noting the size of `gmt-coast-full', ~47M) > > I think this is a moot discussion... just look at disk prize these > days. Here in Germany, a 20M IDE costs about DM 400 (~ US$ 230). > > Any mirror that can't afford that shouldn't be a mirror in the first > place (IMHO).
The gmt-* data are extremely large relative to the number of people that use it and its importance. If we adopt your attitude, then we might see new packages that have an even lower utility/size ratio. What happens when I decide that everyone has to see the new movie about Linux I just filmed, and I decide to upload all 3 GB of it to main? Or when someone decides to contribute all of their favorite books from the Gutenberg Project in .deb format? What you thought was a large amount of space (20GB) is now entirely full. Are you going to buy all of the mirrors new, even bigger disk drives? Somehow I doubt it. The problem isn't how expensive new disk drives are, rather the problem is the low utility/size ratio of some packages. [note, this discussion belongs on -project. Reply-To: is set] -- Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.verbum.org/levanti PGP Fingerprint: A580 5AA1 0887 2032 7EFB 19F4 9776 6282 C207 843A
