MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX in bsd.sites.mk

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Wed Jan 18 21:44:28 UTC 2012


--On January 18, 2012 9:09:10 PM +0000 Chris Rees <utisoft at 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?

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