[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?

[Allan McRae]

On 15/04/13 02:08, Xyne wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
> 
>> On 14/04/13 09:52, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>>>
>>>>> What happens if the network connection is dropped while
>>>>> packages are still downloading after package installation has started?
>>> In this case only those packages that are already downloaded will be
>>> installed. And because installation respects dependency order then
>>> partial installation will not brick the system, no?
>>>
>>
>> Sure it can...  e.g. an soname bump in ncurses.  ncurses gets updated
>> but nothing else, bash is dead.
>>
>> Allan
> 
> 
> You could check for isolated subgraphs of the dependency graph in the
> downloaded package set and install those together as other packages are still
> being downloaded. If you don't want to parallelize downloads yet then you can
> order the download queue by such subsets.
> 

Sure, we could.  But I have no intention of ever doing that because I do
not think the complexity worth it.

Allan