On Wednesday 31 December 2003 15:34, Allen Parker wrote:
> I think it'd be a good idea for portage-ng to include better localization
> features (specifically relating to mirrors). I've recently been plagued
> with RESTRICT="nomirror" being set in recent mysql 4.0.x ebuilds causing my
> filefetching operations to take considerable amounts of time when they
> should actually be the fastest. (my example is 30kb/s from argentina
> instead of the regular 4Mb/s from gentoo.mirrors.pair.com)

To me this has more to do with the mirror selection algorithm than with 
localization. Mirrors from the mirror:// pseudo-protocol should be chosen in 
such a way that they are both load-balanced, and optimized for local users. 
Preferably this should work without user interference.

The same should hold for multiple source locations in the ebuild itself, but 
it is less important.

Paul

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