From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: Binary Distributions Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 16:46:01 GMT
In article <probreak.728969493@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> probreak@cis.ksu.edu (James M Chacon) writes:
For some reason people seem to think they have to keep all the
source online. This is strange, since 90% of it can be archived
off onto floppies or tapes except when needed. I can fit the X
sources onto 10 1.4M floppies, and thats the biggest package I have
yet to do. Most of the stuff would only have to be compiled once
anyhows, so if its not changing you can just delete the source when
you are done. I don't keep TeX around for this reason, since once
its installed its not really gonna change.
Well I keep most of my sources on tsx-11.mit.edu and various other
internet sites. Why is this a big problem for some people? Too far?
-david