Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:14:38 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, jgh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX in bsd.sites.mk Message-ID: <666152AB4483DEBB619367C0@utd71538.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <CADLo838XMx3jeJFxMP5Ej007Vmi0bX2i%2BhhGv7zzjObfn-08LQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120116201117.GA90568@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> <4f15924a.7CUoXdl4yduNUIqM%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <CADLo838XMx3jeJFxMP5Ej007Vmi0bX2i%2BhhGv7zzjObfn-08LQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--On January 18, 2012 9:09:10 PM +0000 Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: > > I worry about the ethics of 'stealing' Fedora's bandwidth with other > people's ports; we should only be using their mirrors if it's explicitly > developed by Fedora. > I'm not sure I follow. If Fedora is making an rpm available for download, how is it "stealing" their bandwidth to download the rpm from there? Wouldn't be equally "stealing" to download it from anywhere else? -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell
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