Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I care. I suspect everyone who has to download the Packages.gz for sid on > a slow link probably has a vested interest in removing the stupid and all > but totally unused crap people throw in the archive, not adding more to > it.
I appreciate the variety. I'd be much more interested in a better compression algorithm (bz2, for example) than in a censored content. > We have some really silly things in the archive, and that's fine as long > as they actually have a real use. But I don't go packaging every little > applet and script I write, because most of it is useful to six people, > some of it closer to about a dozen. Please define "real use". > When packaging a thing, a developer should be asking what this package > will add to Debian and who will benefit. If the answers are "not much" > and "nobody really", do we really need to further bloat the Packages list, > the archive space, the mirrors' disk requirements, etc, with it? I say > probably not. "Only do what's popular" has lead to Windows. I prefer Debian the way it is. -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton.com/ My GPG Public Key: http://www.isotton.com/gpg-public-key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
