On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:45:00PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:40, Pupeno wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate bittorrent into > > ebuild so people could use it to download the sources from diferent mirrors > > and even people could share a bit aliviating mirrors' task... of course, the > > current way should be available always and bittorrent as an improved way if > > it is posible (that is, if bittorrent is installed (and enabled ?) and > > there's a .bittorrent file for the file that's going to be downloaded). > > Or this is already done and I didn't know ? > > Thanks. > > I talked to the bittorent author about this and he was happy to help, > and it would be nice to add this functionality. He did point out that > bittorrent works best with large files like ISOs rather than > standard-sized archives, though.
IIRC there was some discussion of this previously, and it sounded like the best way would be to use bittorrent on a per ebuild basis, ie: only on big packages like openoffice. I got the impression that the bt integration was coming sometime soon in the development version, but have no idea if the dev version is the ~x86, a masked version, or just a gleam the gentoo-dev teams eye :) alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway
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