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I think it's a great Idea. I proposed a similar idea several months |
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ago... but it was shot down due to security concerns, plus I had no clue |
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how to write the needed code. It is definitely a good idea, providing those concerns can be addressed. |
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On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:35, Håvard Wall wrote: |
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> There has been some discussion lately about how to reduce disk usage on |
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> mirrors. Some programs (typically games) takes a lot of space and must |
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> be stored in the portage-tree due to lack of good host-sites on their own. |
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> How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users |
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> could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would |
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> benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files |
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> on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would |
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> probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it. |
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> Ok, I guess this might be a rather stupid proposal. I don't expect any |
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> supportive comments. Just had to get it off my chest -) Flames are |
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> nevertheless welcome. |
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