Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 14:24:12 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r317847 - head/security/gnupg Message-ID: <20130511142412.GA37923@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20130511134617.GD94348@titania.njm.me.uk> References: <201305110138.r4B1cgUq049566@svn.freebsd.org> <20130511075928.GA94348@titania.njm.me.uk> <20130511134617.GD94348@titania.njm.me.uk>
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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 02:46:17PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: > Perhaps FTP sites should be listed before HTTP ones when both exist. Please don't. FTP is brain-damaged protocol, and though it is still works fine for distributing out large collections of files, it is definitely not as good as HTTP for distfile fetching. Those folks behind all sorts of weird firewalls call tell you more about how much PITA ftp:// URLs can get. ./danfe
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