[arch-dev-public] will DVD size be the limit for our official repos?

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:04 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
> for x86_64 we now have 
> 
> [andyrtr at server64 ~]$ du -sh /home/andyrtr/mirror/packages/extra/
> 3,6G    /home/andyrtr/mirror/packages/extra/
> [andyrtr at server64 ~]$ du -sh /home/andyrtr/mirror/packages/current/
> 486M    /home/andyrtr/mirror/packages/current/
> 
> i686 is ~100MB bigger.
> 
> do we want to limit the amount of both repos to fit on a DVD
> (singlelayer)? this might become hard as pkg size usually raises each
> release.
> maybe we can go over that limit but would have keep out packages (e.g.
> i18n) from DVD releases.
> 
> opinions?

IMHO there are still enough packages waiting for repo cleanup. And in
case we want to make such a DVD, we can decide what parts to leave out
then.