Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:12:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:11:57 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:59359 "EHLO bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:11:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:11:49 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Gerd Knorr Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues Message-ID: <20020319071149.E19135@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Gerd Knorr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020318212617.GA498@elf.ucw.cz> <20020318144255.Y10086@work.bitmover.com> <20020318231427.GF1740@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020319002241.K17410@suse.de> <20020318180233.D10086@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:21:00AM +0000, Gerd Knorr wrote: > Why don't you ship a tarball with a install script within the tarball > (like vmware does for example)? That would make downloads even smaller > for people with bzip2 installed as you can easily provide both .tar.gz > and .tar.bz2 ... If we change our installation at all, it will be to offer RPMs, .deb, etc. Other than that, this is how it is. I'm not blowing you off, I'm raising your awareness that we are extremely busy and that it is actually in your best interest to filter what you ask for so you get the stuff that you really want. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/