Pierre Chapuis schrieb: > Le Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:03:03 +0200, > "Grigorios Bouzakis" <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > >> May i ask why pacman requires pacman-mirrorlist and not the other way >> around? Pacman can operate without a mirrorlist. Pacman-mirrorlist can >> not operate without pacman.. > > Agreed, but I think a lot of users would forget to install if it weren't a dep. of pacman. Maybe pacman should be renamed something like pacman-core and both of them added to a "pacman" group? > i like the idea. what would be the disadvantages, Daenyth? > Also, I don't like the fact that the new mirrorlist is installed in place of the user's. I think most people edit their mirrorlist, and they don't want to redo it every time. A .pacnew file would probably be a better idea. > for the mirrorlist, i think an update script would suit best, but that may be kind of not arch-way. i run vimdiff every time there is a new mirrorlist, but actually you could do all that with a script, that adds new and deletes old servers, keeping the users' choices -> commented out mirrors. H.G.
