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.