yum.conf shipped with 1.0
Nicolas Mailhot
Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Wed Oct 29 08:51:14 UTC 2003
Le mer 29/10/2003 à 00:46, Michael A. Koziarski a écrit :
> > Very often, the user does not care or does not have info enough.
> > Whatever checks the user is supposed to do right now, a preogram can do
> > too.
>
> This is not always true.
>
> I am charged less for bandwidth within New Zealand. How is the program
> meant to know that?
>
> My gentoo server uses an NZ portage mirror and this works well, however
> mirrorselect reports an australian one as being the fastest and won't
> let me choose another. Any tool to automatically select mirrors will
> *have* to let the user override its selection.
>
> That's not to say it can't default the selections, even hide them in a
> 'view selected mirror' pop-up. But I need to be able to change it.
>
> Admittedly, I'll be in the minority here, most people can just choose
> their mirror.
can not you mean...
Anyway sure there is room for ntp-like "prefer" overrides, but they
should not be the default.
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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