[pacman-dev] Download options

[Christian Hesse]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Fri, 2016/12/02 16:47:
> There was many thread and patches regarding this, so I am starting another!
> 
> So far there are two (maybe three) things people want options for to do
> with the downloader.  I see most of these options being set in
> pacman.conf and rarely specified on the command line.  Argue with me if
> I am wrong here...
> 
> Based on that assumption, here are my preferred option names (for both
> pacman.conf and the command line):
> 
> 1) Disable low speed timeout
> 
> DisableDownloadTimeout
> --disable-download-timeout
> 
> I see no need to separate out speed and time timeouts.

This is the one I was interested in. As you want a switch only I will take
"Introduce a 'stupid-proxy' option" [0], rename "stupid-proxy" to
"disable-download-timeout" and resend the patch. Thanks!

[0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-November/021672.html
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