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Corey Shields wrote: |
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>At one point in time someone suggested that we may as well utilize other |
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>people's mirror networks that are already out there, rather than our own. |
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>This then got implemented for stuff like sourceforge packages. |
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>Unfortunately this plays hell for lots of people. If you have a local mirror, |
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>then you get files fast and without using your outside bandwidth. Having to |
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>wait for a file from some mirror in zimbabwe because "that package already |
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>has a mirror structure" defeats the purpose of running a local mirror. |
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I know only one mirror network who could worth the hassle: cpan. |
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Perl has a nice geographically distributed network of mirrors. Too bad |
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portage can't automatically select the closest cpan mirror. :( |
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