On Monday 02 September 2002 19:08, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> There is no point downloading the whole pool. It includes a couple of gigs
> of packages (10? 15? 20?): It holds packages for all the debian branches.
> It also holds all the sources.
>
> Why do you want to download the debs? Do you know exactly which ones you
> need?
I want to install it on my laptop which is not always on the net, and
sometimes I want an additional package, which in the case of RH merely means
plopping in one, two or three cds to solve the dependency issues, but I have
it anytime I want. (happens when compiling something that suddenly needs a
library I never thought of installing, etc. I don't have enough space on my
drive to install everything. Only 12GB and want to do video editing as well,
so I want as much /tmp as possible)
If this works well and I like debian, I would like to install it on a desktop
which has only a 56k dial up connection. My laptop can at least get effective
10mbit/sec at work; not so from home.
Arie Folger
--
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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