Re: CPAN is getting too big

[Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>]

Kurt D . Starsinic <kstar@chapin.edu> writes:
>On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 01:13:18PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
>> This message is intended for CPAN people.
>> 
>> As you may have noticed, the amount of information on CPAN now exceeds
>> the 650Mb that fits on a CD-ROM. Since people (like publishers)
>> occasionally make CPAN snapshots on CD, we need a way to either split
>> or ignore some of the contents.
>> 
>> Before re-inventing wheels, what do you think?
>
>    rm authors/id/G*AR/perl5.00[45]*.patch.gz

Hmm, it is reasonable to extend that to *patch* in general - it 
is on the CDROM then (presumably) the full .tar.gz version is handy 
with good bandwidth so there is no need for patches.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.

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