bittorrent in core? what frontend?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Dec 17 07:08:56 UTC 2005


Alexander Larsson (alexl at redhat.com) said: 
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:21 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Alexander Larsson (alexl at redhat.com) said: 
> 
> > > I don't use bittorrent all that much. What do people think about these
> > > two frontends? Are there other interesting ones?
> > 
> > I kept meaning to package gnome-bt for Extras, and kept forgetting.
> > So that would be my preference. :)
> 
> One issue with gnome-bt is that it depends on the bittorrent package,
> and the bittorrent package already includes the default gui app, so
> unless you do some creative packaging you would get two bittorrent UIs
> with gnome-bt as the default.

True. It can be packaged around, or just ignored as a problem. It
was just that it seemed to me that having gnome-bt as something
that would pop up after hitting a torrent file in nautilus, firefox,
etc. would be a better solution than the standalone client.

Bill




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