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Mike Auty posted on Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:15:10 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> First off, thanks everybody for the suggestions. It seems like people |
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> aren't keen to mirror the large tables on our mirrors, but no one's |
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> mentioned a reason for not doing so. Is there an infra reason behind |
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> that or did everyone just take my caution and run with it? |
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Based on previous related discussion, it's simply a reluctance to throw |
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that much extra resource requirements at the folks who are after all |
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/volunteering/ to host gentoo mirrors. We're invited guests whose |
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continued presence is at their pleasure, and we shouldn't be taking undue |
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advantage of the privileges we're given or the resources required to |
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support us as such. |
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If it's a core requirement, no problem. But the further from core |
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requirement it gets the more sensitive infra seems to be about non- |
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trivial space requirements, and any way you look at it, 30 gigs of |
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rainbow tables are both non-core and non-trivial, especially with the |
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split package and no-mirror on the big package solution, so... |
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Beyond that, I suppose it'd be a topic for the mirror list. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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