Eli, I did not mean to imply that the way you showed is wrong. I am totally new to Arch and pacman, so I really don't know how this all works. I am just trying to learn. On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be > > simpler: > > > > sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort > > rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > > > > It *seems* to work okay from here, and does not explicitly require use of > > rankmirrors or a mirrorgen file. > > > > Well, for my use case specifically, which I quoted, I chose to use > rankmirrors. ;) > > Anyone else is free to use whatever is best for them. > > -- Eli Schwartz >