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Subject: feature request: easier "auto select a close mirror for me"
From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 AT gmail DOT com>
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It would be awesome if the top option for servers were "auto select
closest" or something like that.
Possibly a web server that would do the redirects for you [?] (or you
could do local pings and see which one answers quickest).  Possibly
like what VLC does for its distro's [1] or some other offering already
available.

Related, it would be nice to have a command line option for unattended
install that were "--auto-select-server" for the downloads...
FWIW.
Cheers and thank you.
-roger-
[1] https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits

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