On 11/24/05, Bryan J. Smith thebs413@earthlink.net wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 19:46 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
Thanks to all who responded. CentOS is a great distro, and it's worth the occasional struggle, but it woud be even better without the struggle.
I'm still trying to figure out what you're trying to accomplish with such statements.
Then again, I should probably ask the same thing of myself with regards to responding to you. ;->
Simple frustration that [ the | one of the ] [ pick one] best distros does not have the best delivery mechanism. The fact that I have not experienced this type of frustration with other major distros seems to be of no consequence to you, and that's fine. I'm not interested in plugging Gentoo or Ubuntu; I'm merely asserting the fact that I almost never encounter this type of problem when fetching updates for these distros.
Some of the responses - maintain your own mirror or use a different mirror list - are excellent workarounds for my problem, and I will pursue them, but these recommendations ignore the fact that I never needed workarounds for ceratin other distros. If the problem doesn't exist, you don't need a workaround.
We've just about exhausted this thread.
-- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan