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) _______________________________________________________________________