[pacman-dev] pacman.conf little clean up

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 05:46:27 EST 2008


2008/1/27, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> 1) Why do we have this comment everywhere in the conf file :
> # Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
>
> In my opinion, all these lines could disappear. It's recommended that
> you keep all your repositories in sync. That means using the same mirror
> for all official repo.
> And since all official repo already have this by default :
> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Makes sense to me.
+1

> 2) For similar reasons, I don't think the following comment is needed :
> # REPOSITORIES
> #   - can be defined here or included from another file

and +1

> 3) I find pacman.conf more readable with more new lines (especially when
> read without syntax highlighting), so I added a few of these as well, to
> better separate the different parts, like the comments and the commented
> lines.

and yet another +1

P.S.: yeah, I like cosmethics. :-P

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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