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On Thursday 29 May 2003 06:22, Priit Laes wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:22, Henti Smith wrote: |
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> > just a quick thought ... |
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> > would it be viable to add bittorrent support to portage to use instead of |
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> > wget etc ? |
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> > |
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> > Henti |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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> It would be good for live/gamecd's... For packages <50 mb it would |
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> consume too much cpu power, because you would have to set up a torrent |
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> for every small package out there. |
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I'm sure there are less consuming and probably less popular protocols/programs |
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out there for p2p file sharing, no? Also, what would the problem be with |
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having a variable in the ebuilds like FILE_GET="[bittorrent|wget]" ? |
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My $0.02. |
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Zack Gilburd |
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http://tehunlose.com |
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