[Catalog-sig] disallowing the removal of packages?

[Martijn Faassen]

On 07/05/2011 11:55 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> Could we rewind right back to the start of this conversation when it
> was suggested that you keep and ship a local mirror of packages you
> rely on? Such mirroring is trivial to set up.

Why force everybody who depends on PyPI making a local mirror? It may be 
trivial, but trivial * 1000 is still a lot of work.

So I'd like to share the burden of setting it up and maintaining it with 
others.

Regards,

Martijn