Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add config var to limit repo connection timeout

Maarten de Vries <maarten@de-vri.es> writes:

I ran into the same objections when I wanted to expose a curl option (in my case for client certificate authentication). But maintaining a patched pacman seemed like too much long-term work, so instead I made curl-inject-opt [1], a program using LD_PRELOAD to inject curl options into sessions of another program. I also added it to the AUR [2].

That looks great, and would definitely solve my problem. Like you said, it's not the most user-friendly solution. I wish it be baked into pacman just so I don't have one more thing to set up the next time I reinstall Arch. Nathan