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From: Christian Gut <cycloon@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage + bittorrent anyone?
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:36:07
Message-Id: 20040216133602.GB27529@is-root.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] portage + bittorrent anyone? by Jason Toffaletti
1 Hi Jason!
2
3 On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Jason Toffaletti wrote:
4
5 > Is there any interest in adding bittorrent support to portage. This would give
6 > users the option of using bittorrent to download distfiles. It would take
7 > some load off of rsync mirrors. Some work might need to be done to add
8 > features to bittorrent to allow users to share their local distfile cache,
9 > but its already written in python, which is a plus.
10
11 i would not even think of using that without some strong gpg-like
12 signing of the source-files.
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