why doesn't yum stay on the continent

[Robin Laing]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 18:02 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 
>>The most prosaic one is that it isn't trivial for yum to work out
>>which continent a user is on.
> 
> 
> Surely it is.  Just read the information stating what timezone the
> computer is located in.
> 

It wouldn't work for me as I am on one side of Canada but I connect to 
the Internet on the other side.

There are times that I can get a quicker download from overseas than 
in North America.

-- 
Robin Laing