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Why is this a problem? (Score:1)
Why do you think this is a problem?
Letting CPAN.pm configure itself with sensible defaults is a good thing - it creates a better user experience, and if for whatever reason you want to use a specific mirror it can easily be set using the "o conf urllist" command.
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CPAN appears to take real pride in the fact that it has a huge network of 222 mirrors. Is that pride justified? Or is having such a network of mirrors just an outdated (1995), almost ridiculous concept?
I doubt whether anybody still modifies the default settings for CPAN.pm, once it works. I know I don't. That means that currently maybe say 70% of all installations use the same 3 or 4 repository servers, and that percentage can only just go up.
Do we really have to maintain the mirror network? Or can we thi