>> Not at all. In German it depends on the `quality' of a hyphenation
>> point. I strongly recommend that you have a look at our
>> `wortliste' project, where we have added weighted hyphenation
>> points (or rather, we are trying to classify them).
>
> I don't know if it is totally relevant here, but I've recently filed
> a feature request on the LuaTeX tracker to make discretionaries have
> custom penalties (for a quite different purpose):
>
> http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=928
>
> It won't appear in TeXLive 2015, but maybe it could be part of the
> solution in the future?
Yes, maybe.
Werner