[Slapt-get-devel] Proposal - handling of missing sources

[A.J. Venter]

Hiya Jason.
I would like to make a suggestion that would greatly increase the general 
usability of slapt-get/gslapt for ordinary users, based on the usage patterns 
I perceive with my customers.
One of the things that most confuse them is why when a source fails, nothing 
else updates, in particular if that source is on removable media.

The current versions of slap-get will, if a source fails simply not update at 
all. I believe it SHOULD if a source fails, just SKIP that source and still 
enable updates from other configured sources, this way one would not need to 
edit the sources to get a critical update form one server if another is down 
as you have to do at present.

Thoughts ?

A.J.
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