[Yum-devel] Fastest mirror selection plugin

[Panu Matilainen]

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 :-/

 	- Panu -