>>>>> Brian May writes: >>>>> "zhaoway" == zhaoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: zhaoway> 1) It prevent many more packages to come into Debian, for zhaoway> example, Linux Gazette are now not present newest issues zhaoway> in Debian. People occasionally got fucked up by packages zhaoway> like anachism-doc because the precious band-width. And zhaoway> some occasional discussion on L10N packages to distrub zhaoway> others life who don't need it.
bm> ...only if you download and install the package in question. bm> What do large packages have to do with the size of the index file, bm> Packages? I think the point was that every package adds about 30-45 lines to the Packages file. You don't need to download any of the Linux Gazette to have the 33 lines each issue takes up in the Packages file. Cheers, Chris -- Got jag? http://www.tribsoft.com