bittorrent in core? what frontend?

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Fri Dec 16 15:54:59 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote :
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The current Extras bittorent package already splits the GUI into a
> sub-package called "bittorrent-gui", so as long as gnome-bt only requires
> what is contained in "bittorrent", it should work out fine.

It might not have to be in the default install, but it has to be in
core, as they build from the same SRPM.

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