On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote:
> > On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last.  I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
> > > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from
> > > GENTOO_MIRRORS.  Doable?
> >
> > As others have pointed out, caches, proxies et cetera are often Your
> > Friends. Thus, I wonder if there is something specific you are trying
> > to achieve here? Maybe these wise men from odd countries (like Mr
> > McKinnon's weird country on an unknown planet, with companies with
> > actual clueful management! ;) )
>
> We're a carrier-grade Telco/ISP in a third world country that pretends to
> be first world.
>
> Techies rule here :-)

let me guess: 
South Africa?

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