On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 02:47  AM, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

>> Simply adding mirror sites to Makefile or anywhere doesn't
>> provide flexibility to user.  Per-package based
>> customisability is not so bad thing to have, I guess.
>
> Actually, it does add flexibility to the user. It allows MASTER_SORT
> and MASTER_SORT_REGEX to work correctly. At the single package level,
> there's no more flexible way than to download the distfile into
> ${_DISTDIR} yourself. What MASTER_SORT does, is provide that
> flexibility *without* *continued* *supervision*.

   To second this: if you have something like MASTER_SITE_MOZILLA just to 
customise download locations, you require the _user_ to know about 
possible mirror sites in the vicinity for each and every such package.  
Whereas if you use MASTER_SORT*, all that is required is for the 
maintainer to add a sensible list of sites.  The user then only has to 
set her/his preferences right in one place.

   Cheers
       ,
    Rene