Re: [gentoo-dev] Peer-to-Peer?

[Jean-Michel Smith <jsmith@kcco.com>]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:36 am, Michael Cummings wrote:
> I just wanted to repeat, I meant absolutely no offense or disrespect
> with this posting, turn the flame guns off, yada yada yada. I think the
> "technology"/technique posted about is interesting, could be useful,
> just IMHO binaries for the gentoo packages goes against why something
> like gentoo is so great...

While I have absolutely no interest in precompiled binaries for Gentoo, I do 
think that using some kind of p2p approach, like FreeNet for example, as a 
way of distributing tarballs and perhaps even portage trees, would be very 
cool.  I've had 'emerge sync's fail on more than one occasion because the 
round robin rsync server I connect to happens to have its connections maxed 
out.

One of the real strengths of FreeNet is that the more popular something 
becomes, the more available it becomes, rather than the opposite as is the 
case with more traditional client-server designs (which http and ftp 
essentially are).

Jean.