Repository feature proposal

[Alan Cox]

> reasons.  My initial thoughts are that someone needs to step forward to
> work with the mirrors to maintain a list (our IS guys try, but they're
> far too overworked to really be able to spend significant amounts of
> time on this -- I'm sure smooge will jump in to ditto this ;)  Then, we

Why isnt it automated ? You need a sign up form, a script to verify a 
mirror seems to be valid/complete, and I guess 10,000 lines of idiot
proofing 8)

Alan