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On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:28:29PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> Bryce Porter wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Ouch... Wget is very lightweight and does an excellent job of what it is |
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> > used for. It is small and simple, and easy to understand. Why fix what |
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> > isn't broken, anyway? |
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> I personaly use prozilla for fetching. This tool can find mirrors for a |
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> source and downloads from the fastes one. Additionaly it downloads the |
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> package parallel in portions. I get the maximum download speed most times. |
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> But it has a ugly ncurses based interface. I think Philipe is enhancing our |
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> fetch function at the moment. And we decided to use prozilla for default. |
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> wget does a good job in most cases, but here it sometimes hangs after |
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> downloading a big source and I must CTRL-C it. |
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It looks like we need a virtual/download category... :) ...remember everyone, |
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it is *very* easy to select a different download app for Portage. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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