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What is Pacoloco? Pacoloco behaves like a regular Pacman mirror except that it downloads a package at first only when it is requested. It acts as a cache between your local Pacman package manager and the remote mirror. When run on a local server, it massively reduces the download time your local Pacman package manager takes to download new, updated packages. Pacoloco can download new versions of packages automatically every night for example, this is called “prefetching”. It is really nice and reduces upgrade times even on a 50Mbps connection from minutes to just seconds for the downloading part for large upgrade sizes and shares the downloaded packages between machines in your local network. Very nice for rarely updated machines!