From: jared r r spiegel (jrrsice-nine.org)
Date: Mon May 01 2006 - 23:21:43 CDT

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On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:57:42AM +0200, sebastian.rotherjpberlin.de wrote:
>
> Btw: I talked about synergy-effects wich would be provide an advantage for
> all Servers. If you don`t know what synergy is and if that`s the reason
> why you can`t stop bitching you may wanna visit the school again....
>
> This topic is as dead as your mind...

  hmm.

  don't get me wrong; i enjoy being able to use my upstream
  to "give more than i get" with torrents, but i don't believe:

$ sudo pkg_add calc-2.11.7
calc-2.11.7|connecting to tracker
calc-2.11.7|torrenting....
calc-2.11.7|download complete. seeding. ^Z to background ^C to cancel

  makes much sense.

  i reread the OP to make sure i was reading the original question right,
  and there is mention that it might make more sense for the install
  sets than for packages, but the original topic is for packages;
  anyone around since this time last year remembers andrew fresh's
  post up about the torrents he's seeding, which already have
  $(uname -r).$(uname -m).packages.torrent; so i imagine the original
  question has to do primarily with individual packages...

  a couple of things spring to mind:

A) python would have to be in base then. the license seems to my
   amateur eyes as a BSD license with a tamed-down djb clause #3.
   perhaps the license excludes it from consideration in base.

B) making the ports infrastructure make constructive use of
   the bittorrent concept might be complicated. some packages
   are quite small; some packages are quite large. people are
   going to have to sit around seeding forever for some of them
   for there to be any difference from just going FTP...

  do you really think there's a need for an official/integrated
  torrent mechanism for obsd, given what binaries are actually
  distrubuted, other than what someone else has already stepped
  up and provided?

> Kind regards,
> Sebastian

  if those are kind regards, i wonder what lively discussion
  would be borne of the unkind ones...

--

  jared

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