Why packages sources are NOT mirrored?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:46:33 +0200
Marcin Juszkiewicz <mjuszkiewicz at redhat.com> wrote:

...snip...

> This is my connection to pkgs.fedoraproject.org machine. Fetching
> 48MB archive reached 36% in 2 (two) hours...
> 
> We ship binaries through mirrors all around the world. yum/dnf knows
> how to use them to get packages in a quick way. Knows how to handle
> lack of connection etc.
> 
> But sources used to build packages came from one place. ONE...
> 
> Why? Why we are not have them mirrored?

Very few people download sources directly from our lookaside cache, and
I am not sure mirrors would see much advantage in mirroring that for
little use. 

> Or if we have then which magic option I did not managed to find yet?

You can get the source from the src.rpm which is mirrored?

kevin
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