[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?

[Mohammad_Alsaleh]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:58:24AM +1000, 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
> 
> 

On that note.

Directing more effort to get already existing features more wildly used
might be more useful than implementing new features/optimizations IMHO.
(namely, sodepends and debug packages). But that's an Arch discussion
not a Pacman one!

Having said that, local queries are the only operations that feel slow
to me. So, finally making a decision about how to (fix) this would be
great.