On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Alexey Eremenko
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Marcus Hüwe
wrote: On 2008-07-29 14:07:35 +0000, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Now, what about offliners, that keep everything locally ?
Having too many repositories makes things difficult.
Having one big repository would make things difficult too. I don't want to imagine how much disk space would be needed...
Actually about disk space: Debian 4.0 takes 13 GB of space per 1 architecture (i386+noarch) for 18000 packages. openSUSE 10.3 takes 8 GB of space per 1 arch for 6000 packages. Which means: openSUSE already has all the big packages, what is lacking are utilities and "helper" packages. Adding many useful utilities (many of whom are CLI) won't make the core distro even 2x bigger than we are now. If we count the fact that we are not going to add 10000+ utilities overnight, rather it will be a long process lasting several years, then I see no problem at all, since both hard disks becoming big, 50mbps VDSL becoming reality and blu-ray discs of course.... -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"