Spring cleaning, early

[Russell Matbouli]

DTRT - clean your CPAN directory out. From the Perl Review -

http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/8314

The size of CPAN is almost to the point that we will
need three CDs to fit it all - 1.3Gb currently. Randal
Schwartz, however, wrote a script to just mirror
the most recent versions of everything (excluding the
perl distribution itself, about 25Mb gzipped). The
mini-CPAN came out to be 225Mb. brian d foy invented
the "Schwartz Factor", or ratio of the real
ective size, currently hovering
around 0.174. He estimates that with the current
size, if everyone cleaned out old distributions to get
the Schwartz Factor up to 0.4, everything will fit on
a single CD again.
-- 
Russell Matbouli       |             Your fingers staple pine nuts
russell at futureless.org |               into everything you touch
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