I haven't used EasyUrpmi, but I used the other (similar) web tool SmartUrpmi regularly.
My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during one session (a known bug). So I used SmartUrpmi to select a mirror which I knew to be fast, reliable and uptodate instead of playing lottery with %MIRRORLIST. Today with Mageia this risk is not high because there are not so many mirrors around my residence. But I still would like to select a dedicated mirror (my own mirror) from such a list as provided by the web tool. I don't know EasyUrpmi, so I can't say anything about Michael's reasoning against it. -- wobo
