[pacman-dev] Changing how repo dbs are updated

[Jeremiah Dodds]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
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> That is essentially what I proposed for #1 and #2 in my original email.
>  The point with "-Syy" is that you have said you really do not what the old
> database, so is keeping it as a fallback the correct thing to do in this
> case?
>
> Allan
>
>
I can't imagine too many users would prefer to be left with no db versus
their old one they were attempting to replace, given the choice.