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On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 00:32, Jason Toffaletti wrote: |
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> Is there any interest in adding bittorrent support to portage. This would give |
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> users the option of using bittorrent to download distfiles. It would take |
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> some load off of rsync mirrors. Some work might need to be done to add |
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> features to bittorrent to allow users to share their local distfile cache, |
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> but its already written in python, which is a plus. |
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You can write something and use the FETCH_COMMAND in make.conf. |
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Personally I don't want to wait a zillion hours to download a simple |
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source file. |
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Regards, |
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-Lisa |
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<Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur> |
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