Ted Unangst([email protected]) on 2016.06.22 12:25:04 -0400: > Marc Espie wrote: > > This would allow pkg_add to auto-configure a mirror, for the case where > > PKG_PATH was not specified and where pkg.conf does not exist. > > > > It only triggers when a location ends up empty and when run in interactive > > mode, e.g., it shouldn't interfere with local lookups. > > > > Good idea, or awful ? > > This would be pretty surprising to me I think. If for some reason I have > failed to configure a mirror, I would prefer to get an error so I can fix the > underlying problem. If we can't contact a DNS server, we don't fallback on a > list of known public servers. > > Auto config at install time is helpful, but this sort of dynamic auto config > violates an important principle: it should be possible to unconfig something.
Aside from that, i dont think we should be hardcoding ip-adresses like that. A name can be changed in DNS, but this will cause http requests to that ip for quite some time.
