I know there's another thread relating to the speed of pacman -Sy and
it prompted me to ask a question I've been meaning to ask for a long
time. If I do a "pacman-g2 -S" of a package which doesn't exist, the
result on my laptop is a lot of disk activity and almost exactly 2
minutes later I get the response "error: could not add target
'freddo': not found in sync db". Of course the timing of this
operation is dependent on a lot of factors, including the speed of my
laptop's hard drive which is generally slower than I would like.
Regardless I am left wondering why it takes so long to confirm that
the package quoted doesn't exist in the database.


-- 
May you always be Frugal,

Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz)
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