New vegastrike for F-10: 500MB !! ??
Stephen John Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 20:21:28 UTC 2008
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Nigel Jones <dev at nigelj.com> wrote:
> I have no problem with it, BUT, (and I speak personally here), there are
> some people that will not use it because it's just too big (500MB is
> larger than some of the monthly data transfer caps in New Zealand
> (200MB/mo), I personally, only have 700MB/day.
>
This sounds like a new yum plugin. "Cap my downloads to X/day" so that
packages that are larger than that cap get marked etc.
> Also remember that even though it may produce a 500MB noarch rpm, it also
> means quite likely a 500MB srpm making it 1 gig in total.
>
> Another consideration would be the size of the community behind
> vegastrike, if we have 100+ then thats great, if it's only 10 then I
> become doubtful over it's usefulness in regards to resources. (Don't get
> me wrong, just trying to put a slightly different perspective on it.)
>
> Just my two cents,
>
> Nigel
>
>
> On Fri, April 25, 2008 6:59 pm, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm planning on updating vegastrike to the new 0.5.0 upstream release for
> > F-10
> > and maybe later F-9 / F-8 too, but vegastrike has been dead for a while
> > and now
> > makes some huge changes, so better to keep the old trusted version for F-8
> > /
> > F-9 for a while.
> >
>
> > However the 0.5.0 datafiles are 500 Mb b2zipped! So is this a problem?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Hans
> >
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