[pacman-dev] slower ftp access with pacman 3 ?

[Xavier]

2007/5/8, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>
> Yes, pacman moved from libftp to libdownload, a port of the BSD
> libfetch to Linux.
>

thanks for clearing this up, I was a bit confused with these 3 libs.

>
> Change the mirror file if you want. We aren't going to list duplicates
> of every server in the file, it is quite long as is.
>

I wasn't thinking about having both, just choosing the best default.

> I for one find FTP to be a faster protocol over a good connection-
> this is usually due to server setup because their ftp daemon is set up
> to serve small numbers of large files, while http is set up to serve
> large numbers of small files. Maybe that is all placebo effect, but I
> seem to notice it.
>

ok, if http is generally only faster for syncing, and ftp is generally
faster for downloading large files, then fair enough.
I'll just start using http for a while, and then decide only for
myself which one is better :)