On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 14:28, Lee R. Burton<lburton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Perhaps not needed, but could be useful, more folks complaining generally = faster action on the part of a mirror admin (like yours truely)... although, if someone comes back from vacation to an inbox full of 300 "YOUR MIRROR IS OUTDATED" messages, they might be understandably unhappy. > Might be nice to know as an end-user since one could switch off the mirror for a while.. mhm that part could even be made automagic. I still disagree. pacman is a package manager, not a mirror maintenance tool. An external script, or perhaps yaourt would be a better home for it.