From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17067 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 17:04:24 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 May 2004 17:04:24 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BL3LE-000067-7B for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 17:04:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 32002 invoked by uid 50004); 4 May 2004 17:04:23 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19910 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 17:04:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:00:27 -0700 From: david@futuretel.com To: Jason Huebel Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040504170027.GE19585@redhate.futuretel.com> References: <1083296558.8842.127.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <4091EC15.9080500@gentoo.org> <409728EF.7040100@gentoo.org> <4097A955.7040709@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4097A955.7040709@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2004.2 Feature Requests X-Archives-Salt: bb112be5-7a79-4dac-a2b2-9707e0f8d0f1 X-Archives-Hash: 1d07b294a9003ac04f7fa6e9ed580eb9 On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:31:49AM -0500, Jason Huebel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Troy Dack wrote: > | If not a dvd iso, maybe an ebuild that deps on catalyst and can be used > | to generate an iso image. > > You're assuming that the user is already using Gentoo-- which they most > likely won't be. I would say a prebuilt DVD ISO is the only way to go. > As far as how it gets distributed, a torrent would work out fine. > > What is the status of torrent hosting on one of the Gentoo servers? > I don't know about the gentoo servers but alot of system/network admins I know complain about bittorrent because it requires a very large amount of ports to be open. This is especially frustrating if the admin of the machine is not the network admin and has to justify opening 10-100 ports to the world. Expect some resistence. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list