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I'm certain that I'm not the first to suggest this, but I think it would be |
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good for us poor dialup users to pack a 4th stage tarball, containing source |
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for the more popular and useful packages like X, KDE, GNOME, Mozilla, |
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Evolution, etc. I myself purchased a CD only to find that it gave me exactly |
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the contents of a 3rd stage tarball - and no more. If the CD had the big stuff |
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that just about everybody wants, myself included, it'd be a trivial matter for |
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me to get everything going and just ebuild the rest. Downloading the likes of |
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X, KDE, GNOME, and Mozilla over a modem, though, is HELL, especially without |
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the help of a download manager that supports resume (not sure if Portage does |
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or doesn't, but I doubt it) and moreso for us poor saps on non-PPP/SLIP |
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connections (AOL, NetZero, Juno, etc.) |
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In addition, it'll simplify things a lot for those who just want to pull the |
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packages via a friend's connection onto a CD, and stuff like that. |
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Saddest of all, in the time it takes to build a system on a dialup connection, |
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it's outdated. |
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