On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:10:32AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > The other seems like an outgrowth of the much > more practical "we need to manage our resources, we're growing too big" > issue. > > Personally, I don't think the free/non-free issue is the right place to > hit, if we are trying to manage our ftp servers.
The entire size of non-free is smaller than queue/accepted gets on some days. I don't believe there's any significant efforts spent on supporting non-free software at the moment that isn't also necessary for supporting main. > What I think should be the case for mirror operators: they should > be able to drop non-free, contrib (and even extra) as they see fit. They certainly can -- by not mirroring the pool/non-free directory, and the appropriate Packages files. AFAIK this isn't done much, because it doesn't buy anything: non-free is trivial compared to main in all the appropriate measures. > It would make a lot of sense to have a mix of numerous fast mirrors which > only distribute debian's core packages, with a few larger/slower mirrors > which distribute a wider variety of packages. Which is to say, while that's true, differentiating non-free isn't helpful towards that goal. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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