Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:07:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > >The habits (and I have them too) of thinking that disk space is costly > >are really old habits that it's time to break. > > No, it's not. Low end disks are cheap. High end disks still aren't.
Disks are still $1 per gigabyte. IDE disks are more than sufficient for this task, aren't they? Other disks run--omigosh--up to $2 per gigabyte. > Bandwidth still isn't. Especially when you're spending donated > resources rather than your own. Mirrors are quite free to decide not to download anything but the i386 packages. Surely doing this job right would involve making sure that this is possible and works well. So adding extra to our stock wouldn't increase *anything* except for those who choose to carry more. Ordinary users download what they actually need, and wouldn't download any more than they do now.