Few days ago I have looked into a Kubuntu installation in /etc/apt/sources.lst. The following question crossed my mind: what would be the advantage of choosing HTTP over FTP mirrors? I then thought of the complicated FTP protocol (active and passive connections) and switched every ftp to http. To no surprise, the connections were established in an instant, compared to a FTP connection (and I was connecting somewhere in the country, over a very large connection = let's just say I was able to download with 1 MByte/sec).
Today, I do a pacman -Syu and what do I see: pacman stalling before downloading a package. It quickly remembered me of that Kubuntu system configured to download from FTP repositories. I take a look at /etc/pacman.d/whatever and what do I see? Lots of FTP repositories. Very short question: WHY? Thanks. Mircea -- http://mircea.bardac.net
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