On 10/18/20 7:01 PM, Xyne wrote:

Hi all,

There's an open ticket to have the reflector package provide "pacman-mirrorlist" so that users can remove the latter: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67653#comment193375

The problem is that the package does not include a mirrorlist and it will only create one if the user starts the provided service, which is entirely optional (I do not use it, for example). The dependency is thus not satisfied without user intervention.

I'm inclined to leave it as is (no provides) rather than risk broken pacman dependencies because a user forgot to run the service, but I'm still weighing the pros and cons. Does anyone here have an opinion or a suggestion of how to handle this elegantly?

$ pacman -Qi nomirrorlist Description : Dummy package to replace pacman-mirrorlist Provides : pacman-mirrorlist Depends On : pacman reflector Conflicts With : pacman-mirrorlist Replaces : pacman-mirrorlist I have a dedicated personal package to force resolution to it rather than the official mirrorlist; I then have the freedom to make it generate a mirrorlist in post_install, or at least provide the file itself as a backup file with a randomly chosen mirror that at least works. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User