Hi, When using Debian based distributions, such as Trisquel, aptitude update is painfully slow. This is because it will try to "update" from every mirror in the list. It will then, as I was explained yesterday, use the one that is the most up to date.
Pacman instead uses the first reachable mirror in its list. So if that mirror is out of date, it then download out of date packages. If the mirror is not enough up to date the Parabola installation will have old packages, possibly with security issues. The security then depend on the chosen mirror and how up to date it is. Parabola has a web server that can redirect pacman to a known good mirror, so if the first mirror becomes too much out of date, Parabola developers will redirect to a better mirror. However having pacman "update" (pacman -Sy) to all mirrors and then selecting the most up to date would probably be better security wise, and that would release the developers from maintaining such redirection. Denis.
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