Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 1996 19:42:24 +0930 (CST) | From | Michael Talbot-Wilson <> | Subject | Re: Pruning the tree |
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Johnie Stafford wrote:
> >>>>> "mh" == Mark Hahn <hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> writes: > > >> I think a reduction of over 20% and close to 1.1 MB is a major > > This assumes that we all have T1 links. It took me about an hour and a > half to download the new source the other night.
The point about time to download is valid, just relatively unimportant. One approach would be for the mirror sites to run the source file through split. How about YOU have a look at the mirror program in use at a nearby mirror site, work out and test a configuration that will automatically do the split, and persuade the site administrator to use it? You would still download the entire kernel source, but in sessions of convenient length.
What has annoyed some people is that you want someone else, someone at the centre (specifically, Linus), to do a lot of work and make a fundamental change in the distribution for a totally peripheral purpose touching on your convenience. The sensible course, on the contrary, would be to keep out of that person's way and not get under his feet while he is very busy with work of much greater value of which we, if we allow him to do it, will be the beneficiaries.
It is arguably worth dicing the kernel well downstream from the source. This has been mentioned as an option by several respondents to the proposal, but they have been ignored and we return incessantly to the request that someone else to do it at source. Okay. We heard you the first time. Consider the suggestion to have been well and truly made, and let us pass on to something else.
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