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From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: Caleb Shay <caleb@××××××××.com>
Cc: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:25:09
Message-Id: m3el44fi38.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage by Caleb Shay
1 >>>>> "Caleb" == Caleb Shay <caleb@××××××××.com> writes:
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3 JimC> It will work well as a supplement to the staus quo,
4 JimC> but not so well as a replacement.
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6 Caleb> However, ... it would be a FEATURE option, ...
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8 Good to know you agree.
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10 Caleb> If all of use with fat pipes are downloading from each other,
11 Caleb> we aren't sucking up all the mirror's bandwidth,
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13 Yes, that is a benefit for all of us.
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15 In addition to its use by leaves, it may also be beneficial for the
16 mirror sites themselves to use bt to grab the larger distfiles.
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18 -JimC
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Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage Brian Friday <bfriday@××××××××.edu>