On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:19:18PM +0100, Bjørn Lindeijer wrote:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> wrote:
repo on /etc/pacman.conf ..... #[archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
Could you help me understand why you did it this way? Personally, I am used to the INI config format, which uses [headers] as sections in the config files, so it is straightforward to me, but supposedly people do this way too much. I'd like to understand why the section header seems more like a comment.
Uhm, as I understand it, it looks like a comment because it IS a comment. That's why Eric told him to get rid of the #.
I'd say it used to be commented out together with the Server thingy, but wasn't uncommented properly when Stephen wanted to use the repo.
Bjørn
I think Aaron was talking about how people seems to think that the section headings are unimportant and serve as some sort of comment. This results in a lot of problems with servers "not working", because pacman pics up the first server (from the "previous" heading) and succeeds at getting a list. I'm not sure why people seem to ignore it. I was familiar with ini before I even came to Linux so it was obvious to me. Perhaps people think that pacman just scans all the "Server" addresses, and the headings are unecessary.