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Nick Devito wrote: |
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> It wouldn't be a hard task to accomplish (to put the sources on the |
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> mirrors), since *most* of the source is already on the mirrors in some |
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> form or another. We could make an option when downloading the livecd to |
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> either download ones with the sources included, or without, and, include |
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> links to download the tarballs used in making that release. And yes, it |
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> would be very trivial compared to violating the GPL. That's just me... |
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Why should we put the sources on every mirrors at all? |
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Those sources packages will be much less downloaded, 4 sure put them |
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only in _one_ place over the internet will suffice. |
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>>>> Creating an ISO isn't a problem (assuming you have the sources, which |
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>>>> for historical releases might be a problem), but it would require |
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>>>> another several hundred megabytes per release on the mirrors which isn't |
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>>>> exactly a trivial amount. |
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