> Apart from this, this is a really tough problem, because of infrastructure > issues. Basically, our mirrors are not that reliable, and the closest > one often won't have the packages you need... which is a reason why it's > mostly some user settings...
True - although we could do a very similar stunt to what we do with ftplist now in the installer - including remembering your most recent choice from your IP address, so it just figured out where you liked to get your packages from.