Marc Espie wrote: > This would allow pkg_add to auto-configure a mirror, for the case where > PKG_PATH was not specified and where pkg.conf does not exist. > > It only triggers when a location ends up empty and when run in interactive > mode, e.g., it shouldn't interfere with local lookups. > > Good idea, or awful ?
This would be pretty surprising to me I think. If for some reason I have failed to configure a mirror, I would prefer to get an error so I can fix the underlying problem. If we can't contact a DNS server, we don't fallback on a list of known public servers. Auto config at install time is helpful, but this sort of dynamic auto config violates an important principle: it should be possible to unconfig something.
