Peper schreef: > And there are also some packages like cedega, which you must even > dowload by torrent :P After you have subscribed (which is the real reason for the fetch restriction)?
It's only a <10MB rpm/deb/tgz, why would you have to download it by torrent? In that particular case, Cedega is a commercial application, and only subscribers (paying customers) may access the download link. Therefore you are required to manually download the binary to /usr/portage/distfiles, where Gentoo can then install it. It's really just a super-set of the same issue, you have to in some way authenticate yourself before you may have the program; in sun and ibm's case, that authentication involves accepting the license, in the case of Transgaming, it involves paying money to subscribe. But it's the same thing; the developer wants to know/specify who has access to their work, and they enforce that. Gentoo respects that enforcement. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
