[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's possible to do a variation of what you describe by adjusting > environemnt variables that specify the length of the timeout and the > maximum number. I don't think this behavior should be the default, but > by adjusting those values, you could get what you're after. > > I'm hesitant to spend a lot of time on this particular aspect of the > code. Once we have mirroring support, we can favor mirrors that are > faster and have fewer errors. It seems more worthwhile to work on > solving that problem than to fine tune the timeout handling now -- it's > going to change as we add mirror support anyway. > > -j > Sounds good to me.
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