On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:34:01 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro <faust64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > but yaourt is very slow (other programming language, don't know exactly, > but > even on a core i7, it's shocking to see how long it took to do simple > things...) It used to be slow mainly because it did a lot of parsing with Bash and Unix tools. Its experimental branch [1] relies on a new, external tool in C and is much faster. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35479