On 28 Jan 1999 15:50:27 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jason Gunthorpe writes: >> And for the tiny fraction of the population that is behind an FTP >> proxy without any http proxy support they can fetch it from the >> archive by hand there is no need for it to be on the boot >> disks. (It is hard to find a PCee that cannot run netscape) ... >> Again, as with dpkg-ftp the tiny fraction of the population that is >> behind such a firewall can get either a newer apt or a dpkg-http by >> hand they should not be on the boot disks.
> Do we really want to be telling people that they can't install > Debian unless they already have Windows? No. Tiny population or not, I think the lack of 'Authorization' support in the shipping apt is enough reason to keep 'http' on the boot-disks. We'll just document that it should be used unless you really need 'Authorization'. I see Jason's point, though, that we'll be confusing around 80% of users, which supporting an additional 3%. It's a trade-off. I'd say the same about ftp, except it doesn't seem work at all. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
