Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

Hi On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:

However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to make a complete upgrade in one step. So a note by the Arch news IMO still is useful.

Pacman downloads all packages before installing any of them. So if you have a bad Internet connection then you'll be stuck at the first (download) step. It will not leave your system in broken state.