[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?

[Xyne]

Allan McRae wrote:

>We need all packages downloaded to perform conflict checking.
>Installing in parallel would be difficult as we need to maintain
>dependency ordering.

Aside from that, wouldn't parallel disk IO be slower due to the write
head having to jump back and forth more often?

What do you plan to parallelize?
Compression and decompression of DBs and packages?
Dependency, provider and other metadata resolution?