It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us select one.
I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on "Mother" (ftp.debian.org). However, it's kind of a pain to go fetch the mirrors list by hand and then enter the info by hand. Also, it looks like some mirrors only carry "stable", while others carry the full compliment of distributions. It would be nice if, when I select that my access method is ftp, I could optionally fetch a fresh copy of the mirrors file and then (whether I fetched a new copy or not) I would be presented with a list of mirrors, how fast they are, and what distributions they mirror. This isn't all that different from how the CDDB database system works... and I think that it really works slick. I'd be willing to code this... provided whoever maintains dselect would be open to the idea of including it. - Joe
