On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:15, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i remember a year or so ago when i complained about this worthless > > practice i said that it would end up consuming hundreds of megabytes > > - i was told that was ridiculous, it would never happen. > > Megabytes! Horrors. You counted up to 96 MB in your computation, > which I will assume to be correct. > > Current cost of hard disk is something between $1.00 and $1.50 per > gigabyte. > > So that means that 96 MB costs the whopping sum of about twelve cents. > Whom shall I write a check to? And if it's hundreds of megabytes, > which I'm happy to consider, then the cost of holding all those > kernels might well rise to a whole dollar. > > I just added up the size of all i386 packages in the pool on auric. > (There are 15,688 of them, since there are multiple versions of many). > That comes to the whopping amount of 6,367,729,045 bytes, which looks > like a lot, except that it's really 6GB. Oh my golly, that might be a > whopping $10. > > The total size of /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool on auric is about 63 > GB. Which is about right, since we have ten released ports.
10% of the whole distribution : that's a lot Moreover bandwidth costs too.