idea: Bittorrent for everything portage?

vod · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

I've been messing with bittorrent lately and it's awesome. If you have more than a few people downloading a file, you get *very* good download rates and none of it at the expense of the original provider of the file.

Is there a way to make portage bittorrent-ready? Especially since there's all these warnings about not wasting people's bandwidth by rsync'ing too much.
Also, imagine when the next big kde release comes out or something, the more people grabbing it = the faster everyone can grab it.
It could both reduce the load on the gentoo file servers *and* improve download speeds at the same time.

Anyway just a crazy idea.

duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

Been brought up a few times already.....
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=52706&highlight=bittorrent
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47559&highlight=bittorrent
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47144&highlight=bittorrent
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=32771&highlight=bittorrent
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54626&highlight=bittorrent

pilla · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 5:26 pm Post subject:

Moved to Dups, choose your thread in the list above.
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