[Yum] More on BitTorrent and YUM

[Bill Cox]

> What the focus of this should be (IMHO):
> 
> Your workstation has 25 updates.  10 from Extras, 10 from Updates and
> 5 from Dag.  
> 
> Extras and Updates have X number of mirrors 
> Dag has a separate X number of mirrors
> 
> Why can't I pull one extra package from Extras mirror 1, one extra
> package from Extra mirror 2, one Dag package from Dag Mirror 1 and so
> forth as long as I have the available bandwidth.
> 
> The thing with BitTorrent I think that it manages it's bandwidth usage
> (maybe not).  I know me personally thought of BT because of it's
> ability to spread it's downloads across mirrors.  And I now understand
> that it BT itself is not the answer but I think that thinking along
> the lines of threaded downloads might benefit YUM most of all.
> 
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Hi, Joseph.

This sounds like a very reasonable idea.  However, if I could get the
BT-FTP thing going, you could potentially get fast parallel downloads
with out needing many servers, and I'm hoping the changes to YUM would
be minimal.

Bill