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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 03:46:43PM -0300, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> This brings in another question; why do opt for debootstrapping a
> chroot intead of just downloading a tarball for it? It can 'sort' of
> make sense in the dev versions, but not in a released framework
> where there is no real change.

It's a *lot* easier to maintain.  We have a working mirror network, we
don't have to deal with maintaining the release artifacts, the bootstrap
process has to work anyway, etc.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]