Fedora stability

[Bevan C. Bennett]

> There's too much history already for my grey cells to sort it all out 
> but what seems to be the most pressing problem today is that up2date 
> is configured out of the box to use the very same repositories that 
> are intentionally bandwidth limited to anyone except repository 
> mirrors.  This results in a rather bad taste due to transfer rate and 
> dropouts to someone who's expecting to get their box updated in a 
> reasonable time.  Unfortunately, this problem is only going to get 
> worse as the number of updates increases.  
> 
> A question for anyone "in the know": Is this a problem that will be 
> addressed either in the near term or should this be something that 
> should be entered bugzilla? It's more of a process problem than a 
> bug.

Perhaps up2date should default to nowhere, and we should add a suitable 
'up2date-config' script and GUI that you get pointed to which encourages 
the selection of a suitable mirror from some (well-known?) list of mirrors.

The script side is very nearly trivial, but I'm not up on the GUI side...