bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Paul Howarth]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote :
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:21 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>>>Alexander Larsson (alexl at redhat.com) said: 
>>
>>>>I don't use bittorrent all that much. What do people think about these
>>>>two frontends? Are there other interesting ones?
>>>
>>>I kept meaning to package gnome-bt for Extras, and kept forgetting.
>>>So that would be my preference. :)
>>
>>One issue with gnome-bt is that it depends on the bittorrent package,
>>and the bittorrent package already includes the default gui app, so
>>unless you do some creative packaging you would get two bittorrent UIs
>>with gnome-bt as the default.
> 
> 
> The current Extras bittorent package already splits the GUI into a
> sub-package called "bittorrent-gui", so as long as gnome-bt only requires
> what is contained in "bittorrent", it should work out fine.

Probably not actually. Extras has bittorrent 4.2.0 and gnome-bt doesn't 
work with anything newer than 3.4.2; at least not last time I tried it.

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Paul.