Re: [PATCH] Partial mirror list update

[Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>]

In article <or4s65aimh.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> you write:
>On Jul  4, 2000, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, please go ahead and install your patch (perhaps unifying
>> "released only, no snapshots" and "no snapshots") and feel free
>> to install similiar changes without explicit approval in the future.
>
>Wouldn't it be nice to have two separate sections, one with sites that
>carry releases and snapshots, and another with sites that carry only
>releases?

Yes, I am afraid this is starting to make sense....

I would even say: do we need the sites that carry only the releases ?
After all, gcc is a gnu program, right ? and there are enough gnu mirrors
around the world...

and it's not like there is a shortage of snapshots mirrors yet, but it
is getting fairly harrowing to go through the list to find the genuine
active mirrors.

All in all, I still see the same trend spreading... mirrors have limited
space, stuff is growing, and when the space gets sparse, the `unused,
useless stuff' is always what vanishes first... nightmarish world of
unix ftp servers that only carries 386 binary rpms...    :(