On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:35:24PM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't understand why, for each release of Frugalware, the entire > contents of the stable repository are packaged onto CDs - 13 in the > case of Kalgan IIRC. If anyone wanting to install Frugalware has the > necessary bandwidth to download 13 CDs, surely they could do a basic > installation - perhaps from CDs 1 and 2, then have pacman-g2 download > whatever else they want/need. > > Is there something here that I just don't understand?
it's just for people who do not have internet access at home, nor have a dvd drive or dvd writer. so they can download the cds at work or at a friend and they have all the packages offline. i think these days most people just go with the dvd or the netinstall, since changing cds are boring :) being nice to people who <described in paragraph #1> just costs ~ nothing, so why not. (i remember we got some feedback about some users liked this, and came up with Archlinux and Gentoo as an example where it's almost impossible to use the system while being offline, since only a selected range of packages is available for download on cd.)
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