On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:58:24AM +1000, 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 > >
On that note. Directing more effort to get already existing features more wildly used might be more useful than implementing new features/optimizations IMHO. (namely, sodepends and debug packages). But that's an Arch discussion not a Pacman one! Having said that, local queries are the only operations that feel slow to me. So, finally making a decision about how to (fix) this would be great.
