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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:38:00 +0100
From: Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...
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Olivier Galibert Awoke this dragon, who will now respond:

>  > I shouldnt. its a pointless waste of bandwidth.
>  > 
>  > Now, whats YOUR answer?
> 
>  Developpers need complete sources.  No questions about that.  If they
>  don't have the complete sources, they'll fuck things up.  So the
>  developpers have zero use for partial downloadings.

Sorry, that doesnt fly. If I dont work on SCSI, only on networking, I
/dont/ need the SCSI code. Even if I had it, I wouldnt read it.

I deleted all the arch directories except ARM and X86 on my machine to
speed up grepping the kernel.

so, not having all the source can speed thigs up.

>  Some users may like to be able to download only the core code and
>  drivers/filesystems/architectures they use.

This developer would too.

>  Ignoring the obvious
>  version drift problems that will happen,

Why would they happen?

> proposing such a service
>  requires work and a large amount of bandwidth.  Do you volunteer?

Surely it requires LESS bandwidth than if people are sucking the WHOLE
kernel ?
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