On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:35:42PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Merging all these into one package will not do much harm to the user
> > (who will be able to install a 2M package on top of his 250MB KDE
> > installation to get all the choice of GUI themes he would ever want to
> > have); OTOH, more packages do have a negative impact on everyone --
> > increased size of the Packages file (which isn't good for modem users
> > and people with slower hardware) and increased overall size of the
> > archive.
>
> Why do you imitate you care modem users? You care a few bytes more in
> Packages (text file! gzipped!)
That has an impact on everyone, especially people with slower hardware.
I know what I'm talking about, I'm an m68k porter.
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