[arch-general] Ignoring packages and piecemeal updates

[Xavier Chantry]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Denis Kobozev <d.v.kobozev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi archers,
>
> It has been repeated a lot of times that doing piecemeal updates with
> pacman -Sy pkgname is not a very good idea. What about ignoring
> packages? Is it as dangerous?
>
> And a more general question: is it even theoretically possible to have
> a bleeding edge distro with piecemeal updates and with no required
> manual intervention during updates or is it just a pipe dream?
>

Just a pipe dream.