State of the archive

Egbert Eich eich at suse.de
Sun May 7 03:50:39 PDT 2006


Alan Coopersmith writes:
 > Daniel Stone wrote:
 > > The response was that an X.Org machine would continue to serve
 > > ftp.x.org, and that annarchy's archive would be mirrored if it was only
 > > writable by a very small group ('xorg-release' was the strawman).
 > 
 > That just ensures that ftp.x.org becomes useless and irrelevant since
 > the main archive remains elsewhere.   That makes no sense to me either.
 > 

Why? It depends on where the general public turns to looking for
packages. 
Since the project is called 'x.org' people would naturally turn 
to ftp.x.org for the latest releases. 

Cheers,
	Egbert.




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