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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Gary R Van Sickle" <tiberius AT braemarinc DOT com>,
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Subject:	Re: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?]
Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:44:21 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R Van Sickle" <tiberius AT braemarinc DOT com>
> Just something to keep in mind here: the texmf .tar.gz is somewhere on the
> order of 30MB.  wget sucks it down quite adequately over a modem or
1/2ISDN
> here in the good ol' US of A, but rarely without a few restartable
retries.
> Until Cygwin's setup gets such functionality, my guess is it would
probably
> cause more grief than it cures to add it as a package, just due to its
size.

That sounds like a good reason to have it as a separate package to the
binaries. Once such a package is mirrored, you can download it quite happily
from your nearest mirror.

As for setup... patches welcome :].

Rob


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