[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 23:47 -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> >
> > here is my only question and I think everyone will agree this is makes
> > sense:
> >
> > should fastest mirror + mirrorlist caching be in a plugin or merged
> > into base functionality?
> >
> > or should it be split up a bit so that the mirrorlist caching is in base
> > and fastest-mirror sorting is still a plugin.
> 
> I've this feeling that at least the sorting part is better off being a 
> pluggable thing. You might be able to use knowledge of local environment 
> to create more optimal sort method or something.
> 
> Also it doesn't work with proxies currently which will prevent it from 
> being used in many places :-/
> 

why won't it work with proxies?

-sv