According to man pacman:

-w, --downloadonly
  Retrieve all packages from the server, but do not install/upgrade anything.

-u, --sysupgrade
  Upgrades all packages that are out of date.   pacman  will  examine  every  
package installed  on  the  system,  and  if  a  newer package exists on the 
server it will upgrade.  pacman will present a report of all packages it 
wants to upgrade and will not  proceed without user confirmation.  
Dependencies are automatically resolved at this level and will be 
installed/upgraded if necessary.

I tried to do 
# pacman -Sw
expecting for a download of all packages, without install/upgrade. Nothing 
happened.

# pacman -Suw
worked, but it isn't obvious from the man page.

As I currently see it, -w is a SUB-option of -u. I believe this should be 
somehow clearified (there might be more SUB-options there).

Maybe it should be a bit clarified what options can be used at the same time, 
what options are actually suboptions... etc.


Mircea
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