On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Les Mikesell enlightened us: > >There is, use a baseurl in your config file rather than the mirrorlist. > > But that's a per-box per-repo specific change, with per-distro, per-repo > variations for the end users to figure out for themselves. And then it > won't fail over at all if the url you pick goes away. Aren't computers > supposed to work for you instead of the other way around? You can't please everyone. I'd argue that the majority of people are not behind a proxy of any sort. I'm assuming you are using a transparent proxy such that you don't have to configure proxy settings on every box - so I won't argue that point. Regardless, tools like puppet, or simply providing .repo files for folks makes it fairly painless to make those changes for end-users. Yes, computers should work for you, however you can't expect the software to read your mind and do what you think it should do. Some amount of configuration is necessary on *any* computer - why is this different? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263