Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Oct 17 20:49:32 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:51 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>> Does it work it bittorrent-curses?
>>> I don't think so, but bittorrent-* from bittorrent.com is essentially
>>> dead code to us, since they closed source any newer versions.  I don't
>>> think we should consider it the 'least common denominator' anymore.
>>
>> Then why don't you tell us what one can use from the cmdline as easily as
>> bittorrent-curses?
>>
>> I agree with seth: mindlessness.  How am I going to explain to a
>> friend of
>> mine who wants to download Fedora then?  "Take the torrent from the
>> site, but
>> then only download the file with dvd in the name".
>>
>> Why don't we also include nonfree codecs in the image and make some
>> cash while
>> at it?
> 
> Stop being rude without any provocation at all. Jesse Keating *is*
> asking for feedback, so you can be courteous while disagreeing.

I didn't intend to be rude, sorry if it looked that way.  I was showing by
example that merging the CD and DVD images is making it hard for users to get
what they want without what they don't want.  I don't think the example was
too far.

behdad

> Rahul
> 




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