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

[Kevin Chadwick]

> > 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.


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