Installing pacman requires a MSYS2 restart (for that I recommend killing pacman.exe with the task manager after you close the MSYS2 console) and base-devel includes pacman itself. If you insist on installing base-devel, tell pacman to install only missing packages using the --needed command line option.
I don't think that base-devel should include pacman, which is a core package. Consider filing a bug report in MSYS2 githug tracker. Maxim Blinov <maxim.a.bli...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi all, I seem to be unable to update pacman. Everytime I try to, it tells > me to exit MSYS2, and after I open it again, it again wants to update it. > > I started with wanting to install base-devel for all the autoconf tools, > etcetera. > So first I check theres no outstanding updates: _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
