[arch-general] pacman's default download manager?

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

wget was never the default – pacman downloads files by itself using
libcurl (earlier versions with libfetch). Both wget and curl
XferCommands are only provided as examples.

libcurl honors $http_proxy in environment (lowercase – not $HTTP_PROXY).

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Mantas Mikulėnas