[Solved] Reflector not in community repo

Technical Issues System Administration
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After noticing that yt-dlp is staying on 2023.01.06 while the Arch community repo seems to have 2023.03.04, I was wondering if my mirrors were out of date. After some research it seems that reflector is a very popular way of setting a good mirror, but it does not seem to be in my community repository at all:
error: target not found: reflector
Also yay doesn’t find reflector in any of the default repos.

I’m still very new to Mabox (or Arch), does Mabox use it’s own core / community / extra / multilib repositories or is something off in my setup?
(I remember once adding a mirror manually to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist but my machine wanted to pull in a boatload of changes after that, so I reverted it back.)

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I actually just found the “Mirror ranking” feature in the right sidebar, which changed the current mirror, which also doesn’t have reflector.

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Manjaro is not just another one of many Arch based distros…
The differences are much bigger than the usual addition of an installer and a few packages to Arch.
Worth to read:
Manjaro:A Different Kind of Beast - Manjaro

Reflector is for Arch and Arch repositories - it is useless in Manjaro (and Mabox).

You can use pacman-mirrors utility.
Pacman-mirrors - Manjaro

You can see package versions in all Manjaro branches here:

Packages

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That I did not realize, thanks for the clarification! I’ve been browsing the wrong docs then for a while, this should point me in the right direction.