From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15846 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Apr 2003 05:25:09 -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 10238 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2003 05:25:09 -0000 To: Caleb Shay Cc: Gentoo-Dev References: <1050351263.19545.20.camel@chinstrap.penguins.homeunix.net> <1050367770.2567.2.camel@chinstrap.penguins.homeunix.net> From: "James H. Cloos Jr." In-Reply-To: <1050367770.2567.2.camel@chinstrap.penguins.homeunix.net> Date: 15 Apr 2003 01:24:59 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage X-Archives-Salt: 0584bc17-2739-490b-99f1-07708bf9d1f2 X-Archives-Hash: bd7244bb384097ec5cd28861e78dc76c >>>>> "Caleb" == Caleb Shay writes: JimC> It will work well as a supplement to the staus quo, JimC> but not so well as a replacement. Caleb> However, ... it would be a FEATURE option, ... Good to know you agree. Caleb> If all of use with fat pipes are downloading from each other, Caleb> we aren't sucking up all the mirror's bandwidth, Yes, that is a benefit for all of us. In addition to its use by leaves, it may also be beneficial for the mirror sites themselves to use bt to grab the larger distfiles. -JimC -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list