On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > On my personal machine I've long-since changed XferCommand, but on > doing a new install on another machine with the latest iso (behind a > proxy, which is a first for me), I figured out that a problem I was > having was linked to pacman NOT using wget by default. Is it just me, > or wasn't wget the default before?
wget was never the default – pacman downloads files by itself using libcurl (earlier versions with libfetch). Both wget and curl XferCommands are only provided as examples. libcurl honors $http_proxy in environment (lowercase – not $HTTP_PROXY). -- Mantas Mikulėnas
