On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While I'm not as concerned about security as some (most) here, I do > think "db files from one site and packages from another" is a good idea. > (some) Mirrors will be slow, however, and there will be additional > complexity since the db would perhaps be several steps ahead of most > mirrors. For example if package foo-1.2 is installed, package foo-1.4 is > in the db, and package foo-1.3 is in the mirror, pacman would have to be > smart enough to install foo-1.3.... > Why should it do that ? And that would make the security aspect completely irrelevant. You did say you were not concerned about security (and to be honest, me neither), but it's still not a reason to ignore it. By the way, when you use more than one mirror, pacman will just switch to the second one if it doesn't find the file it wants.
