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pacman-mirrors feature request #202

Open fhdk opened 6 years ago

fhdk commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/manjaro/pacman-mirrors/issues

What are your take on this request. Is it a real problem we need to handle?

Ste74 commented 6 years ago

What problem? User can use -i flag to choice the custom mirrors.. Is not equal?

Greetings Stefano Capitani

Il 23/05/2018 15:56 Frede H. ha scritto:

https://github.com/manjaro/pacman-mirrors/issues

What are your take on this request. Is it a real problem we need to handle?

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fhdk commented 6 years ago

As I see it - the issue will always exist - some way or another. Personally I do not see a problem which is why I ask you. The issue essentially boils down to: the user - which creates a custom mirror pool - is expected to do some maintenance to their mirror pool when the default mirror pool is changing. The mirror pool doesn't change that often and the issue is fairly simple to solve.

The -i argument would let the user select all mirrors except the ones that does not meet the users criteria.

What the user suggests could be improved is backed by the fact that when you select using either -c or -i you create a static custom mirror pool. If (and when) a mirror goes out of service or a mirror is added to the default mirror pool - this change is not reflected in the custom mirror pool.

The user suggests that - instead of creating a custom mirror pool - an ability to define an exclude list to be added, so the user continues to use the latest mirror pool but without specific mirrors which does not meet the users criteria.