On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vixsomnis
I'm not familiar with rankmirrors, but in my experience reflector sorts them perfectly, and applies as generally as possible, no matter what country:
# reflector -f 1000 -l 1000 -n 1000 -p http > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
There aren't 1000 mirrors, so that number is arbitrarily large. Anyway, this is my preferred approach. Doesn't get much simpler. -- vixsomnis
rankmirrors pings each server and times the response speed, which I can attest has sped up my updating. Also, those options can be skipped altogether, and reflector will simply return all the mirrors -- which is what you would get anyway. You should at least filter it by country though -- unless you don't mind downloading from marginally <s>faster</s> slower Taiwanese mirrors instead of the one 25 miles away. (or possibly on-campus?) -- Eli Schwartz