RFC: cleaning up updates and updates-testing

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Fri Sep 10 00:10:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> At the moment, the Fedora updates tree is somewhat out of
> hand (look, wow - 27G). 
> 
> Does anyone have any specific and concrete objections to 
> removing older, superceded, updates?

I vote to nukem!! If someone wants them they have been around forever
and they ahould be archiving them locally. IMO for the most part they are
a waste of space and although disk is cheap when you are running a public
mirror it gets expensive after a while.

Just my $.02

Tom





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