I can see a few problems with this: * If it comes turned off by default, then most people won't be distributing the upgrades. * If it is turned on by default, people with caps will quickly max out, and most ill turn it off, going back to problem one. * Less popuar packages will heve little to no "seeds" to distribute them, and so will be snail-slow or even uninstallable. * Issue of trust: how do we know these updates are authentic? (though this could easily be solved via per-package signing) * Propagation of updates will be problematic - as everyone rushes to update, machines running as seeds will be thinly spreas and not even other machines set to share will be able to get at a copy.
It'd probably be best to have this augment the existing centralised repo model rather than go for it out right. Way too many showstoppers. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
