On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Thorsten Roggendorf wrote: > I believe the thing about counting. But there is a very good reason for > my suggestion. I doubt that the check is much faster for other people. > If one is installing a system it's kind of ridiculous to wait *half an > hour* for some minor helper to figure out the optimal mirror. I want to > get on with the installation. But the default mirror gave me an average > of 20KB, my handpicked mirror gave me the optimum of my line which is > around 120KB. That's a difference you feel. Picking a mirror manually is > no great deal. Why force that dispensable and painfully long wait on > gentoo newbies?
Okay, we have bug #80699 to which i've attached a patch for the handbook, covering both aspects (manual selection and using mirrorselect). I'd appreciate it if everyone who feels that we really need to dump mirrorselect mentioned it on the bugreport. Bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80699 Attachment: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=50637&action=view Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation & PR project leader The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>>
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