Feature changed by: Wallacy Freitas (wallacyf) Feature #310532, revision 2 - Title: Using the protocol in torrent package manager. + Title: Using the torrent protocol in package manager. openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Wallacy Freitas (wallacyf) Description: I believe not to talk about the benefits of the torrent protocol. - Integrating the torrent in yast (or directly in libzypp), while - reducing the bandwidth consumption of servers, many users will benefit - with improved speed. It would be possible to use all of the servers - contained in metalink and add them as seed. I made a small little test - with this package using utorrent: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11... - The improved speed of 45kbps to 350kbps, adding the mirros of metalink - as seed. You might not need P2P, only the servers contained in metalink + Integrating the torrent in yast (or directly in libzypp), will also + reduce the bandwidth consumption of servers, improving the speed of + many users.It would be possible to use all of the servers contained in + metalink and add them as seed. + I made a small little test with this package using utorrent: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11... + The improved speed of 45kbps to 350kbps, adding the mirros of metalink as + seed. You might not need P2P, only the servers contained in metalink may be enough. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310532