[pacman-dev] Mirrorlist as Dependency

[Martti Kühne]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM, David J. Haines <dhaines at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I was wondering whether it would be perhaps closer to KISS and/or more
> logically coherent not to have pacman-mirrorlist as a dependency of pacman.
> You don't actually need the mirrors to use pacman, and if you maintain a
> local mirror or build your own packages with ABS, /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> just gets in the way and/or becomes cruft.
>
> Thoughts?
>


Well, in case of Archlinux, that dependency makes totally sense.
Pacman delivered without any mirrorlist would be very confusing to new
users.
I guess you're looking at Archlinux' pacman PKGBUILD file, which I
assume is of course part of the Archlinux project, not of the pacman
project. A change of package name to archlinux-mirrorlist on that
front would make sense indeed. But that request I guess should be made
on a different mailing list.

cheers!
mar77i