[arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

[David C. Rankin]

On 6/6/21 2:56 AM, Ralph Corderoy via arch-general wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
>> Why the informative text output from a package manager should use
>> anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the
>> face of the Arch KISS philosophy.
> 
> As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to check for the capability and
> using the escape sequence presented there if it exists then that would
> seem fine.  If it just blindly writes bytes and assumes the world can
> understand them...  And Thomas Dickey's xterm(1) is superb in its
> correctness so that's the main thing to test it with.
> 

Is there any simple way to turn of the parallel download of the packages files
that seems to be at the root of this "new technology". I would be quite happy
to just have the files download sequentially again?

Also, when I update my server at home, this seems aimed ab better saturating
the bandwidth to speed things up. Only problem is if my kids are playing games
-- the howls of bad ping times and cries of "Dad what are you doing?" see to
come without much delay :)

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.