> > On my personal machine I've long-since changed XferCommand, but on > > doing a new install on another machine with the latest iso (behind a > > proxy, which is a first for me), I figured out that a problem I was > > having was linked to pacman NOT using wget by default. Is it just me, > > or wasn't wget the default before? > > As Mantas correctly indicated, pacman does not use an external download > manager by default, but it downloads files internally using curl. > > Why would you even change that behaviour? Using an external download > manager only slows pacman down. Considering the bugs that wget has had without -o that could be dangerous as root as well as other bugs in curl. I've always thought system updates should be downloading as say a _pacman user. One day I may get enough free time to sort that out. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
