maillog: 14/10/2004-16:30:29(+0000): Luke-Jr types
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> > Nobody has mentioned it because it has been discussed and dismissed as
> > unworkable several times before.
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> Actually, you don't even need to sync that. Simply download the primary 
> ebuild, read the dep info, download the next one, etc. Most modern versions 
> of file transfer protocols (HTTP and FTP, at least; don't know about rsync) 
> support multiple transfers in a single connection.

The part where the HTTP and FTP internals get handled by portage
internally, instead of handling them to an external program like wget,
are the reason why the idea was dismissed as unworkable several times
before.

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