On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 10:56, Dave wrote: > I am curently having a play arount with apt-get on Mepis and the default > sources list seems to be huge 50+ sources currently listed - stable/unstable/ > testing > is it normal/desirable to have such large souge group?
Debian is mirrored in a lot of places - I guess Mepis just provides as many alternatives as possible. >From the man page for sources.list :- It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting by speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local net-work, followed by distant Internet hosts, for example). You should put the NZ ones first, and after that you can choose whether to have entries or not - I would say not, because you have to retrieve the package list from each one of them whether you're going to download packages from them or not. However, having them means that if citylink dies temporarily, you can still get stuff. On the other hand, they don't die for long, and you only get new installs and ordinary updates from them - security updates come only from security.debian.org - I don't believe that they let the security updates be mirrored. -jim
