[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 3.2.1-2, pacman-mirrorlist

[Hubert Grzeskowiak]

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