Luke, ... Are you sure that you're not in politics ?
> I suppose folks could opt for the more stable yet higher latency
> official mirrors even if they aren't local to canada and they would
> never be surprised. It may not be too much trouble for me to implement
> a mere stdout statement in the perl pkg-add to advise the user to
> update PKG-PATH to randomly offer one of the official mirrors as the
> PKG-PATH (as an easy to implement fix) and steer the user to install a
> web-browser to discover the current list of http/ftp package mirrors
> if Firefox or lynx exists on the system; since they don't by default.
> It wouldn't be too dissimilar to the kind of messages delivered by
> pkg-add itself to rm folder contents at the end of a run.
>
> On 12/25/15, Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suspect that if you did, it wouldn't check whether there was an
>> astronaut ready to control the on-board computer and would sit there
>> continuously trying to rev the rocket engines with no jet fuel. That
>> is the way pkg-add acts right now. I felt pretty ridiculous
>> wondering
>> why pkg-add wasn't working only to figure out I was working with a
>> mirror that was no longer active this week.
>>
>> On 12/24/15, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>>>>I wanna make a c program that checks for a PKG_PATH that exists and
>>>>connects to a workable link for pkg_add().
>>>
>>> and I wanna build a rocket ship...
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Luke
