On Saturday 10 March 2007 19:07, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:30:08AM -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
...
> > "User friendly" where to many choices can confuse user ;-)
>
> This "user friendliness" results in:
>
>  - increased load on the mirrors (since packages are downloaded although
>    they are available in my local squid cache)
>  - thrashing of my squid cache (packages are stored multiple times there)
>  - slooooow installs (since packages need to be downlaoded from slow
>    mirrors through the net although they are available locally in my squid
>    cache)
>
> This is what you call "user friendly"?  Artifically slowing down the
> install procedure is "user friendly"?

"Artifically" is not the case. People are trying to make installer faster, but 
obviously they have few more 

Is there any particular reason that you want to use squid, or it is used 
anyway and having cached files is nice convenience? 

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
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