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[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:45:43PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:24:56 +0100 (CET)
> syncmail at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> 
> > -<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/mwn/">downloaded</a>.</p>
> > +<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/mwn/">downloaded</a>.</p>
> 
> Is this a good idea? And what is the reason to do that?

I always found the homepage subdir unnecessary and annoying.

> Because it is different from what all mirror's do currently
> which will result in a lot of broken links all over the
> place (ie on 3rd party websites). We already have a damn
> lot of 404s because we moved a few pages months ago.

None of the mirrors are currently in sync.  When they are, they won't
have broken links.  There is a redirect in the Apache configuration, we
don't get 404s because of this...

Diego