[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Added mirror support to makepkg's source array.

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:22:36AM -0600, Sam Stuewe wrote:
> Hey folks, I just wanted to throw a few things out in this
> discussion, if that's alright.
> 
> First, I like the idea of supporting mirrors, but I think we need to
> take certain factors into account that not all the proposals offered
> have. For example, ...

How about we take a step back and figure out how much actual need there
is for this sort of feature? 10 packages? 100 packages? 1000 packages?
If you ignore the AUR, are there *any* cases where this is useful?

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