On 28 Jan 1999, John Hasler wrote: > 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? How is this a statement like that? Someone could easialy do that with another computer and a floppy disk or by running FTP by hand - we already do that to people who need dhcp which is argably much larger than those that need specialized proxy support. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
