Feature 57 (config and provisioning): modules declare config and provisions, their files rendered from templates; synced with main (issues of feature 57, 874)

modules/pacman/files/pacman.conf

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+# The mesh's (module pacman, novox/hq to-be 42): the package manager's configuration. Written
+# whole at every push: an edit here is overwritten, and the file a machine had before is kept once by
+# the host. Owned whole because [options] cannot take a block by appending: anything added at the end
+# of the file lands in the last repository's section.
+#
+# The repositories are the union of what the machines had enabled when the module was written
+# (core, extra, multilib). The options are the distribution's defaults with four more: colour on a
+# terminal, parallel downloads, package lists in columns, and downloads run as the unprivileged
+# alpm user, which pacman 7 creates.
+
+[options]
+HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
+Architecture = auto
+CheckSpace
+Color
+VerbosePkgLists
+ParallelDownloads = 5
+DownloadUser = alpm
+SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
+LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
+
+[core]
+Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+
+[extra]
+Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+
+[multilib]
+Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

modules/pacman/files/reflector.conf

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+# The mesh's (module pacman, novox/hq to-be 42): how reflector refreshes the mirror list, weekly,
+# through reflector.timer. Written whole at every push. Before the module, every machine's list was
+# generated once and never again.
+--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+--protocol https
+--country Belgium,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Germany,France
+--latest 20
+--sort rate