On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:03:30 -0400, Kaiting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Not true, Arch could set up a round robin proxy to other mirrors such that > when a package is requested it returns a HTTP 302 or HTTP 303 redirect. Then > the only network traffic routed through Arch servers would only be the > request HTTP headers which is quite insubstantial but would still allow real > package statistics to be retrieved. > > Kaiting.
This is called mirrorbrain (ok, it is a little more advanced). We just lack a server and someone to implement this. To make it more effective we'd also need some pacman modifications. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
