I must echo something that Ed touched on:

>> * Doesn't the Foundation plan to enable a transparent mirroring
>> system very soon that would make all this p2.mirrorsUrl useless?
> No!!!  With mirror URLs, the mirrors are directly accessed with no
> further access to download.eclipse.org.  With transparent mirroring,
> the download server remains a bottleneck because it must be consulted
> in order to redirect "transparently" to some other site.

Agreed -- transparent mirroring is nice for zip files and such, where a
short URL can be convenient. But for p2 repos which are accessed by
machines, NO!!!!  :)  Let the client gather bits from the local source
directly.

Denis
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