[aur-general] TU application

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/07/13 09:53 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>> 4) Speed
>> It avoid pacman to checks version for each deps. This save a lot of
>> useless computing (parsing and comparing two version)[1].
>> Even if it's not a big deal on last intel processor, this is
>> noticeable on slow processor (like raspberry pie, alix or soekris).
>>
>> We can resume these 4 points by saying : It's more simple.
>>
>> Of course there is drawback for people not updating the whole system.
>> It's unsupported.
>>
> Those processors are no more supported than partial updates.

pacman doesn't have Arch Linux-specific stuff but other distros /
systems should be running on powerful processors because pacman devs
don't care about slower ones?