Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:33:43PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Dienstag 12 August 2008 schrieb Peter Poeml:
> > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:22:24PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > Alexey Eremenko escribió:
> > > > But online search is not enough, because I need to access those
> > > > repositories offline, they must be downloadble.
> > >
> > > Hello ? welcome to the 21 century.
> >
> > Could you be a little less harsh please?
> >
> > If you consider the issue more carefully, you'll see that there are lots
> > of users with less-than-optimal internet connectivity.  There are people
> > that have to pay for bandwidth. It may not be apparent to you, but even
> > downloading a >100 MB openoffice package can be a weeks-long adventure
> > in places/countries different than yours.

> Well, bandwidth doesn't seem to be Alexey's problem if he wants to download
> all repos :)

I don't know details. I don't know if he intends to do that.

Usually, if people request things like that, they either 
* cannot download huge amounts
* cannot download reliably
* need to save bandwidth

> And I don't think we should optimize our setup to the conditions you mention.

Yes, we *should* keep those people in mind. And optimize for them.

No, we should not optimize *only* for them. That's not what I meant to
imply (if you understood my post that way)

> If tweaks are possible ot improve it, fine. But optimizing for a small 
> fraction of our users (and that's what Cristian's harsh words really mean :)
> sounds plain wrong.

I don't know.

> Greetings, Stephan

Peter
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