On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Using mirrors vs mirrorlist
> Last time I checked, people still preferred having a static over using the 
> mirrorlist.  Majority of our users have a local mirror, and so change that 
> anyway.  As for the rest, we haven't asked for a year or two.  Last time we 
> asked, I believe the problem people had was not knowing if the mirror they 
> were getting was being updated fast enough. And at that time, I think 
> fastestmirror wasn't as good as it is nowdays.
> But we could certainly ask again.

We have our own mirror so it doesn't really matter to me.
I've had problems (sorry can't remember the details off hand)
with mirrors not being up to date.
If you make the default mirrorlist it would be important that every
mirror in it is updated frequently - could you automatically check
and remove mirrors from the list if/when they aren't sufficiently
up to date ?

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