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

[Damir Perisa]

Wednesday 11 July 2007, Dan McGee wrote:
 | As long as I can get an base install up and running from a CD-R
 | and then use pacman from there, I don't care about this DVD as
 | much as some do. I just don't want the practicality and cheapness
 | of a CD-R to be forgotten. (core+support or whatever has been
 | suggested)

or a flash-memory stick with a base++ collection of pkgs to set up a 
new installation. 

having the whole collection of pkgs is only usefull for offline 
systems as a reference and installing source. you would not want to 
download 4gb of files if you are not needing 60% of it anyway. 

- D

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