[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman: new config to highlight testing packages

Morten Linderud foxboron at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 10 10:17:23 UTC 2019


On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 06:04:54AM -0400, Matthew Sexton wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:57:19 AM EDT Morgan Adamiec wrote:
> > Pacman is a general Linux package manager and not specific to Arch
> > Linux. testing and community-testing are specific to Arch Linux.
> 
> I struggled with whether to share this patch or not, because my motivation was 
> pure laziness. I didn't know whether anyone else would find it useful/usable. 
> Without maintaining a list of every 'testing' repo name for every distro, it 
> would only be useful for Arch. Thank you for the big-picture perspective I was 
> clearly missing. =D

If you turn it around and add a list instead?

HilightRepositories = testing community-testing

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Morten Linderud
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