On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: > David Starks-Browning wrote: > > >If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not > >even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be > >acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping > >performance? > > What harm can do a single 50-byte UDP packet when there is high > probabiilty that a real "connection" needshundreds of big TCP packets > just to download setup.bz2? > Less harm than "people" using always the first mirror as they never > re-order it, imho.
Sure, let's randomly reorder the list the first time through, if only to reduce the load on the first mirror in mirrors.lst. :-D Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune