Pierre Chapuis schrieb:
Le Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:03:03 +0200, "Grigorios Bouzakis" <grbzks@gmail.com> 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.