Need (apt and synaptic)

[Kevin Kofler]

Kam Leo <kam.leo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > By the way, being geographically close does not a fast or reliable
> > mirror make. Been there with the mirrorslist.

Of course. But the master server is definitely NOT a fast mirror, not only 
because it's geographically far, but also because it's usually swamped with 
more requests than it has bandwidth for.

> Also, one of the reasons for third party repositories not being list
> is that many were not ready for/sync'ed to the core release. For
> example, Plannetccrma fell off my apt repository list after FC2 came
> out. The site never seemed to be ready for the next Fedora release.

Hey, I'm not complaining! It's pretty obvious IMHO that third-party 
repositories are not listed, also for legal reasons.

        Kevin Kofler