Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
> This argument is valid. Dial-up users does not download isos over
> their dial-up connection, they either 1) download at other place (at
> work, a friend), 2) borrow and copy the discs or 3) wait (in my
> country like 3 or 4 months after a release) for a computer magazine to
> come out with the discs included. So for them the content of the
> install set is very important.
>
1) and 2) can be done for individual packages too. In fact for both
these cases, downloading what they want instead of whole ISO images
makes a lot more sense
I an not on dial-up at home, only on a slow neighborhood LAN, but I did
such crazy things like fully updating my work computer and going home
with the complete content of /var/cache/yum/ on CDRW, but is not very
convenient.
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