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@Aatube @LordKitsuna @Tea There are some things I'd like pacman to do automagically that it doesn't, like update the list of archives when they change. Tried to install a package the other day and it kept throwing 404 errors because I had a stale list of archive sites. It didn't tell me that, it didn't fix it automatically.
Always run
-Suybefore installing new packages. That's how it is supposed to be.