[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?

[Allan McRae]

On 14/04/13 07:49, Xyne wrote:
> 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?
> 

On 13/04/13 12:16, Allan McRae wrote:
> I am only considering integrity checking and conflict checking.