On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:37:13 -0500
> Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> > Eww. Geographically-close files should be made available through
> > GENTOO_MIRRORS and the regular distfiles system.
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> 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


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