On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Tavian Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 February 2011 18:10, Jakob Gruber <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 02/21/2011 11:38 PM, Tavian Barnes wrote: >>> >>> Use the new _alpm_for_each_cpu() API to perform integrity checks in >>> parallel. This speeds up integrity checks drastically on multi-core >>> machines. >>> --- >> >> Have you thought about / looked at doing integrity checks in the background >> as individual packages finish downloading? >> >> > > No, but now that I think about it that's obviously a good idea. But > integrity checks may still need to happen where they do now, for > example if the packages were previously downloaded and are now being > installed. Although there's no reason the integrity checks couldn't > happen in the background while the we're waiting for the user to > confirm the installation.
-1 from me. This just isn't worth the nightmare it will end up probably being. -Dan
