Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Francis Giannaros <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 December 2006 17:38, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> You call that reliable? It is no more reliable than a single http/ftp
> download.

That is annoying, but again, I'm not particularly worried about http/ftp 
unreliability. i.e. the danger is there, but if aria2 is going to ensure that 
I get a *very* fast download and still have that risk (which I consider very 
small) then that's perfect. And in fact, it *will* be the case like that for 
most people.

Should we really remove http/ftp as a download option? This is getting 
ridiculous.

> A single failure proves unreliability. A hundred sucesses do not prove
> otherwise.

A hundred successes proves that it's a decent method, but not that it's a 
perfect one; I wish you'd see that. Your inference from "it didn't work for 
me, others: DON'T USE IT!!!" is curious to say the least. 

The only thing I'd conclude is "dang, it didn't work for me", maybe try to 
find out the reasons why, I'd hardly go on a righteous crusade to wipe out 
anyone using aria2 (which is what you're doing). A wget download failed once 
for me because of ftp/http problems; idea! Let's tell everyone to never use 
wget, at all, ever.

Regards,
Francis.