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Re: BitTorrent enabled downloads & updates



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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