On 15/04/13 02:08, Xyne wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > >> On 14/04/13 09:52, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >>> >>>>> What happens if the network connection is dropped while >>>>> packages are still downloading after package installation has started? >>> In this case only those packages that are already downloaded will be >>> installed. And because installation respects dependency order then >>> partial installation will not brick the system, no? >>> >> >> Sure it can... e.g. an soname bump in ncurses. ncurses gets updated >> but nothing else, bash is dead. >> >> Allan > > > You could check for isolated subgraphs of the dependency graph in the > downloaded package set and install those together as other packages are still > being downloaded. If you don't want to parallelize downloads yet then you can > order the download queue by such subsets. >
Sure, we could. But I have no intention of ever doing that because I do not think the complexity worth it. Allan
