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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 01:39, Richard Campbell wrote: > >Impractical. As I said, almost 100% of people won't want 100% of packages. > > It might be interesting to poll in some way, considering how often this > comes up. I suspect more than "almost 0%" might want a 1-button, > overnight-style install. I agree with you with regards to what folk may want. The modular install is about choice and efficiency. There is *no* reason that a 1-button overnight-style install cannot be achieved using setup.exe. Patches accepted gratefully. With regards to having a monolithic download however... Some back-of-a-postcard sums: monolithic install 577MB install. 1 update to a package a week, 1 new 577MB install file created each week. longest period without updating - 2 months. this would mean an average of ~280MB per month downloading updates. modular install 577MB total download size 1 update to a package a week, 1 new modular install (avg ~5MB) created each week. longest period without updated - 2 months. this would mean an average of ~20MB per month downloading updates. Seems pretty clear to me, that for anyone on a slow link, or anyone charged by volume, that the modular install is much more efficient. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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