Subject: Re: anyone object to not having split sets in 1.4?
To: Ronny Svedman <ronny@Update.UU.SE>
From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/03/1999 16:07:48
> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Jon Hamilton wrote:
>
> >
> > In message <87lngbt0xl.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> > }
> > } For 1.4, I'm contemplating not including floppy oriented "split sets"
> > } in addition to the unsplit sets in the binary distribution, and only
>
> > How do people cursed with tiny disk quotas on their well-connected
> > machines (e.g. at school) suck it down and take it home to install?
>
>
> Very good point. keep the floppysets if possible.
Would it be possible to have the server do a splitting on the fly, or maybe
the reverse and store the split sets and do a reassembly on the fly?
I don't know how much trouble this would be - I'm only suggesting it in
case having both kinds of sets is something you _really_ want to avoid. :)
- Joel