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
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