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 -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp pobox com trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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