On Sun, 22 May 2011, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
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.
Not liking the %MIRRORLIST system is precisely why I kept using easyurpmi.
I could of course have typed out the pathways for my favorite sites, but
it's easier to let easyurpmi generate them and then substitute via drag and
drop the first part of the path for the site I want (not one of the ones
used by easyurpmi). Guess I'll either start hand-typing the full pathways or
using SmartUrpmi. Glad you mentioned it. Thanks.
Dale Huckeby
