bug#26201: No notification of cache misses when downloading substitutes

[dian_cecht]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:59:27 +0100
Florian Pelz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 21:48 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > Another option would be to have the mirrors automatically cache the
> > files as soon as they are available to try. I'd hope this would be
> > how things are handled already, but one never knows.
> >   
> 
> If it cached everything, it wouldn’t be a cache?

If the point is to reduce the load on hydra, then at some point it
could have everything. If it doesn't, then why have a mirror when it's
just pulling right the source all the time anyways?