Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nick Cunningham <nick@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:07:54
Message-Id: e99b2eae0901091307t7789a61cvaa344cffb932d8e4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Restricting Firefox website access by Kyle Bader
1 2009/1/9 Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@×××××.com>
2
3 > > Does portage use wget over http by default? Can I change a setting to
4 > > make it use ftp?
5 >
6 > Use a ftp:// mirror ?
7 >
8 > (correct me if I'm wrong)
9 >
10 > -Kyle
11 >
12 >
13 While that would work for the basic gentoo mirrors, there are a number of
14 packages that point to sites like sourceforge that may cause you problems.
15
16 - Nick