Seth, Sounds good to me. -connie sieh Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, seth vidal wrote: > so a thought came to me - maybe it came to someone else too and I just > didn't notice it. > > anyway - a while back someone suggested have a tarball of all the > headers in a particular repository available to be downloaded in one > session so you don't have to make so many connections for > trivially-small files. > > > so what if there was a % of pkgs you needed to download that set the > downloading off. > > so if you needed to download more than X % of the pkgs from any > repository then you downloaded the tarball and overwrote them all. > > > I don't think that would be horribly painful to write and I thought it > might help y'all. > > oh, I'm not dead - I just seem that way. work is work is work and I've > been sorta preoccupied outside of work a fair bit recently. > > not dead yet, just a flesh wound. > later > > -sv > > -- > <rgb>The Penguin endures.... Love the Penguin.</rgb> >
