[MacPorts] #20972: Global master_sites option (in conf) and download acceleration

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#20972: Global master_sites option (in conf) and download acceleration
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 Reporter:  chenggao@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  base                |     Version:  1.8.0                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:                                       
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Comment(by andre.david@…):

 Replying to [ticket:20972 chenggao@…]:
 > I really hope Macports can have two features:
 >
 > 2. Use some download acceleration tool like axel
 > It can accelerate and resume downloading.
 >
 > If combined with above setting, once again I hope server is super robust
 and super smoke/fire-proof.

 I actually second the need to auto-resume partial downloads. From home it
 is virtually impossible to update a large package without this. And it is
 a feature that `wget` and (the new to me) `axel` support out of the box.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20972#comment:2>
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