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Dátum (Date): Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:32:41 -0500
Küldő (From): Charles Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Címzett (To): [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tárgy (Subject): Re: [gentoo-user] bittorent and distfiles

> 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?
> > 
> 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.
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but it would be cool for some packages, especially for metapackages, like kde,
gnome, and large stuff like kernel sources and openoffice... 
or some new make.conf options and daily generation of portage category
distfiles torrents...
I mean: 
20050208-rox-base.torrent shouldda contain all the packages of the rox-base
category... 

Zsoltik@

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