Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>> How come we have never seen anyone complain on the lists that the
>> tarball is too big ( or have we )
>
>
> Because ppl are downloading the "split distributions" instead of the
> whole tarball ... *every* PostgreSQL related port in FreeBSD uses the
> split-dists (only downloads the base and opt packages) ...
FreeBSD is a very small part of the OS planet compared to Linux and Win32.
Look at how big the Win32 installer is ;)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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