David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Has anyone looked at the possibility of having a shared CD or two > between the x86_64 and i386 installs? > > There's 412300KiB of noarch packages which are present in both x86_64 > and i386, and 436108KiB of i[36]86 packages in the x86_64 tree. > > If a package ordering can be found which allows a bunch of those to go > onto a CD which is shared between x86_64 and i386 installations, we get > to lose a CD out of the set without running around like headless > chickens trying to excise useful packages to make the i386 tree smaller. As an Opteron user, I strongly support this suggestion. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
