Current MDK Mirror management is awful (BTW: Jacques, i'm no more maintainer 
for La Reunion :-)

Here are my current griefs:
- no unique mirror list
currently there is a mdk mirror list and a cooker mirror list

- no unique top level directory
there are several top-levels dirs (mandrake-devel, mandrake-iso, mandrake), 
sometimes among other distributions, sometimes in a mirror-specific mandrake 
directory. Having one unique standardised mandrake top-level directory would 
help

- no clear explanations of where to find what
i only discovered non-i586 sections and old sections by asking directly on 
cooker list, whereas i should have found those informations directly on 
mirror list

- contribs missing or hanging somewhere
remember the infamous RPMS2 missing link for 8.2 tree ?

- distributions changing url when transfered to old
this is a pain for bookmarks and urpmi configuration

I don't ask for all mirrors carrying all mdk history. Just better organised 
mirrors, with a clear structure explanation somewhere, so as to understand 
immediatly what is present and what is not.
-- 
Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html


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