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Peper schreef: |
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> And there are also some packages like cedega, which you must even |
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> dowload by torrent :P |
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After you have subscribed (which is the real reason for the fetch |
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restriction)? |
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It's only a <10MB rpm/deb/tgz, why would you have to download it by torrent? |
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In that particular case, Cedega is a commercial application, and only |
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subscribers (paying customers) may access the download link. Therefore |
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you are required to manually download the binary to |
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/usr/portage/distfiles, where Gentoo can then install it. |
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It's really just a super-set of the same issue, you have to in some way |
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authenticate yourself before you may have the program; in sun and ibm's |
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case, that authentication involves accepting the license, in the case of |
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Transgaming, it involves paying money to subscribe. But it's the same |
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thing; the developer wants to know/specify who has access to their work, |
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and they enforce that. Gentoo respects that enforcement. |
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Holly |
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