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[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Should we remove old repositories NOW or wait until update 2025-03-01 and then remove them?

[–] LimpRimble 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I'm just going to wait till there's a pacnew file that needs merging.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Hmm sounds reasonable. After my question I was reading the original news from Archlinux and the following statement

In order to not break user setups, we kept these repositories around in an unused and empty state.

suggest that the empty and unused repositories have no effect. I don't know why they kept this, because removing them would break back then. Removing them now breaks it today, so not sure why they delayed that, as nothing is won. I will ~~un~~comment out (Edit: I meant I will comment out) those lines and see what happens. :D In worst case the system cannot update and I can reverse the change. But there is no reason why the system should not able to update, if the repositories are empty.

Another Edit: Me dummy don't have any [community] repository. Not sure if I removed it before (very possible) or if it is removed by my distribution (please don't hurt me, I'm just using EndeavourOS).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I updated last night and there was a new pacman.conf.pacnew file