On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:37:13 -0500 > Alex Xu <alex_y...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through > > GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system. > > How do you define GENTOO_MIRRORS? Where did RESTRICT=mirror go? Oh > right. What if those are not available? What I am proposing is /more/ > flexibility, but you think when GENTOO_MIRRORS fails, I should still > collect files from just any site half a world away? How does that help? > Please contribute. > Except the original proposal is fairly simple (+ / - to add remove mirrors) and doesn't deal with prioritizing nor ordering them....so how would that work? Labelling each mirror I presume? -A > > > jer >
