Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one

Conrad Meyer konrad at tylerc.org
Fri Oct 17 19:51:16 UTC 2008


On Friday 17 October 2008 12:49:15 pm Jesse Keating wrote:
> Most torrent clients I've seen today allow you to pick and choose which
> files you wish to download.  As such, does it make sense to collapse the
> DVD and CD torrents into a single torrent and allow people to use the
> client to pick which they want?  Are there pros/cons to this?

Something to keep in mind: Debian doesn't even put multiple CDs/DVDs from the 
same release into one torrent, instead having a separate torrent per ISO. I'm 
not entirely sure of their rationale for doing this, but maybe keep it in 
mind?

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>





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