Brook Humphrey wrote:
>
> On Friday 17 August 2001 07:24 am, you wrote:
> > Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > > Ainsi parlait David Walluck :
> > > > Someone replied about this and said that it's not part of the official
> > > > distribution, but actually it is. On KDE Weekly News, it said they will
> > > > leave it off by default for distribution maintainers to enable by
> > > > themselves if it works. Since this decreases loading time by as much as
> > > > 50%, and since downloading SRPMS is rather out of the question for me,
> > > > I'd really like to see this enabled.
> > > >
> > > > If not, might you give a better reason for leaving this off?
> > >
> > > Maybe mandrake KDE team could release unsupported package with this
> > > option activated ? Or someone among people willing to test could do it,
> > > instead of each of us having to download and recompile from SRPMS each
> > > time ?
> >
> > Well I'm on a slightly boosted version of Mandrake 8.0 so I'll have to
> > recompile from SRPMS anycase, but it would be nice to see it sitting in
> > the SRPM directory of cooker. *chuckles* I love new software as much as
> > the next person, but I prefer to get my doses of it in small bunches,
> > and I tend to focus on pet projects. *grins* I'm already thinking of
> > replacing the default python 2.0 with the python 2.2a release. (Yay
> > generators)
>
> If you goto pclinuxonline.com texstar has already made a set of rpm's for 8.0
> that work great they have these optimizations on them already. I'm using them
> right now.
>
I'm locked behind a firewall that only allows netscape as an ftp client,
and the ftpsite that texstar has set up has a maximum number of users
equal to ten, so downloading all the files I need is a real chore and
chews up a lot of my allocated student net time. Considering how popular
these packages are, they really need to be put onto a more accessable
mirror site. Hmm. I'll get in contact with the mirror.aarnet.edu.au
manager and see what he can do.
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