pacman is Arch Linux's package manager, and for msys2 it appears to be a
port: http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Contributing%20to%20MSYS2/

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:18 AM C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:06:58AM -0700, Steven Haddock wrote:
> > We just finished a 2-week workshop and although we did have some
> problems with MSYS2, nano was not one of them. After some updates, we used
> the `pacman` installer with this command and it worked fine..
> >
> >      pacman -S  gcc python2 man nano sqlite vim git bc tar
> >
> > Rudimentary instructions (not super robust!) are here in the brown box:
> >
> > http://practicalcomputing.org/setup
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> I've never heard of the pacman installer for Windows before, and Google
> gives
> little in the way of insight. I gather it's part of msys2, but I'm having
> a hard time finding background and details on that, too.  What's the
> history?
> Is there a community here? Any info appreciated :)
>
> thanks,
> --titus
>
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