Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Dave Cramer wrote:
> 
>> How come we have never seen anyone complain on the lists that the 
>> tarball is too big ( or have we )
> 
> 
> Because ppl are downloading the "split distributions" instead of the 
> whole tarball ... *every* PostgreSQL related port in FreeBSD uses the 
> split-dists (only downloads the base and opt packages) ...

FreeBSD is a very small part of the OS planet compared to Linux and Win32.

Look at how big the Win32 installer is ;)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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