[arch-general] update error(?)

[Francis Gerund]

Eli, I did not mean to imply that the way you showed is wrong.

I am totally new to Arch and pacman, so I really don't know how this all
works.


I am just trying to learn.


On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just using reflector only, as per the wiki mirror page, wouldn't this be
> > simpler:
> >
> > sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort
> > rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> >
> > It *seems* to work okay from here, and does not explicitly require use of
> > rankmirrors or a mirrorgen file.
> >
>
> Well, for my use case specifically, which I quoted, I chose to use
> rankmirrors. ;)
>
> Anyone else is free to use whatever is best for them.
>
> -- Eli Schwartz
>