>Joe (and anyone else interested),
>
>Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's
>a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly:
Cute. However, I'd be heasitant to make dselect depend upon yet another
package. Keep in mind that dselect has to fit on the instal
*- Joe Emenaker wrote about "WISHLIST: Let us select a mirror site from a menu
or list..."
> It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of
> ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us
> select one.
>
> I like using the mirro
Joe (and anyone else interested),
Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's
a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly:
...netselect determines several facts about all of the hosts given on
the
command line, much faster you would if you manually tried to
It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of
ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us
select one.
I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good
knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on "Mother" (ftp.debian.org).
Howe
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