2007/4/20, Mateusz Jędrasik <m.jedrasik@gmail.com>:
I, personally, like this behaviour of pacman. I can right away see if my current mirror is out of date, and such messages are merely informational -
hmm, that only happens when you're switching mirrors, right? I personally always use the same one :) But I get your point.
however what I'd rather suggest is bump version/inform the person who is responsible for the PKGBUILD/ package in the official repos - getting it to the higher version for everyone who wishes to install it (if it indeed incorporates some news, i.e. if it's not a major version bump for example - there should be a separate pkg for those sometimes since not everyone plans on running the latest, as that doesn't always mean necessarily the greatest).
Right, maybe in most cases, if the packages you're using is newer than the one in the mirrors, then the one in the mirrors should be upgraded. But that's not always the case. For example, you might be running an experimental version that shouldn't be in any mirrors, or you applied some custom patches for testing, or you enabled/disabled some configure options that will not make everyone happy. I believe you can have valid reasons for building several custom packages different from the ones in the repos, and you know they are only local because you build them, and you don't want to have pacman output spammed at every upgrade :) Obviously, if this information is very useful for several people, and don't store anyone but me, it should just stay this way.