On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM, David J. Haines <dhaines@gmail.com> wrote:
All,
I was wondering whether it would be perhaps closer to KISS and/or more logically coherent not to have pacman-mirrorlist as a dependency of pacman. You don't actually need the mirrors to use pacman, and if you maintain a local mirror or build your own packages with ABS, /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist just gets in the way and/or becomes cruft.
Thoughts?
Well, in case of Archlinux, that dependency makes totally sense. Pacman delivered without any mirrorlist would be very confusing to new users. I guess you're looking at Archlinux' pacman PKGBUILD file, which I assume is of course part of the Archlinux project, not of the pacman project. A change of package name to archlinux-mirrorlist on that front would make sense indeed. But that request I guess should be made on a different mailing list. cheers! mar77i