[pacman-dev] pacman 3.1.0: new repositories=( ... ) syntax

[Xavier]

Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote:
> People,
>
> Pacman 3.1.0 has a new common "mirrorlist" repository structure like
>
> [core]
> # Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>
> [extra]
> # Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>
>
> Is there a way to change this syntax to this one (like rc.conf) below?
>
> REPOSITORIES=(!testing core extra community !unstable)
>
> I think it will simplify pacman.conf file.
>

You could maybe have a look at the bug report where this was discussed :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6389

So that looks nice, but we would still need the current structure for 
unofficial repositories.