I asked about this before, but the answer at the time seemed to be to edit the hardcoded source mirrors. I would like to be able to use mirrors that are closer than, say, France (since I am in the extreme NW of the US).

---> Attempting to fetch zenity-2.18.1.tar.bz2 from http://mandril.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/linux/gnome.org/sources/zenity/2.18/

Is this a feature in the current release or could some kind of geographic selection be added to the install or maybe ports.conf?

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