A year or two back is probably long enough to start a new discussion. FWIW, I don't think the load on our (increasing) number of mirrors is high enough to cause any problems, so including pacman2pacman by default seems unnecessary to me.
But I may be a bit biased - I was never a fan of bittorrent if direct download was an option :) Best, Andreas (full disclosure: I run mirror.grapentin.org) On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:07:00AM +0000, Josh Branning wrote: > I'm not sure if you are able to search the mailing list archives, or if you > can search by keyword, but there was quite a lot of talk of pacman2pacman > about a year or two back, iirc it was just before some of the old developers > left for other projects. I'm not sure if a consensus was reached, but I > think quite a bit of work went into it around that time. > > Josh > > On 09/01/18 22:34, bill-auger wrote: > > i was going over the existing issues and feature requests today in the > > redmine "installation media" tracker and came across this one that i > > would like to bring back into attention as it was left waiting for a > > consensus decision two years ago with no resolution > > > > https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/964 > > > > it seems like a good idea of course to take some load off the mirrors > > but i have not used it so i dont know if it is robust enough to be used > > as the default nor would that make mirrors unusable for anyone who > > installs a system configured this way > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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