On Monday 07 February 2005 17:32, Charles Pittman wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:39:54 +0800, William Kenworthy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a guide to setting up portage to use bittorent to fetch > > distfiles? Is it worth it for an adsl (512k up/down) connection? > > > > BillK > > > I was thinking about this just this weekend... Although I don't think > that there would be much purpose to it unless you were downloading a > _large_ file. There aren't many programs that this is > necessary/capable of (OpenOffice.org comes to mind), so it's better to > separately download the file. Besides, when you download with > bittorrent, you're supposed to leave the torrents open for other > people. > > Be kind. Rewind. >
What an interesting idea... Maybe this would be more feasible than my
earlier proposal for a progress-reporting system...
*develops ideas*
Maybe I'll write something down and try it.
...but not until I fix my [EMAIL PROTECTED] space bar.
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Supermarket Deli Clerk and Student Programmer
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