Suggest: Pacman check, or source installs

[nastybuttler322]

I imagine this would be a lot of extra code, but it would remove a lot of trouble related to failed installs from absent packages. I'm totally new to arch, but I'm guessing that packages get removed all the time from the repos, since some that are listed by the installer are not available.

If the presence of the packages could be checked for availability in the repositories before they are presented as choices to the end users, and only the packages that are available would be presented to the end users, then that would prevent installs from failing due to packages that are no longer available.

Another option that may be a good idea, is to use source installs through yaort or fetchpkg for the most part, if the user chooses a development kernel. That would allow for choices to be available during the installation, that would either be hidden if that availability check were to be implemented, or it would at least allow the install to go all the way through, with the choices selected by the end user--- as long as everything else works out well during install.

I'll be able to contribute code eventually, but right now I know next to nothing for what this would require.

[deadhead420]

I think thats a REALLY good idea and already know a few possible ways I could implement this without much trouble. I'll report back when I get it all figured out

[erazemk]

@nastybuttler322 Are you interested in contributing to this issue? It's a really great idea, but I don't know where to start either. Also the Anarchy repo was completely removed and most packages come from the official Arch repo so this shouldn't be that much of a problem anymore, but it should be fixed anyway.