On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 00:06, seth vidal wrote:
>
> I figured this made so much sense that someone else has already thought
> of it and perhaps already implemented it. Anyone know if that's the
> case? If not, does that idea sound interesting to others?
It could be interesting but remember- bittorrent is mostly useful for
large files - not for trivially sized things like any single rpm.
Depends, somes RPMs are quite large -- mozilla,
OpenOffice.org,
kernel-source, etc. But the demand wouldn't be nearly as high, I don't
think, and BitTorrent works well when there's high demand. Of course,
demand is sometimes high when security errata come out...hmm.
--Jeremy
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