On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Florian Pritz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > ftp connects way slower than http, especially for lots of small files, > since it has to connect back to the client each time. > > Since I don't see any benefit over http and ftp is old, I propose to > remove all the ftp mirrors from the default mirror list.
+1 from me, but can you elaborate on what you mean by "default"? I can think of any of the following, want to make sure we are on the same page: * pacman-mirrorlist package * install ISO mirrorlist (completely omitted, or simply commented out?) * unchecking FTP by default at https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ -Dan
