I use rankmirrors and I notice on timeouts pacman automatically switches. Today, though most packages downloaded quickly from the mirror just selected by rankmirrors, one or two went very very slow. I guess differing routes by different package requests.
Would it be easy to add a ^S (Ctrl-S) to tell pacman to stop and retry at the next mirror. If I ever find the time, not too likely for a while, I might look into it. Just figured if anyone had worked on it and thought yeah I could just change that then it wold be worth flinging the idea at the devs. On a side note should pacman be using /proc/mounts for Checkspace rather than /etc/mtab.
