[pacman-dev] pacman-4.2 plans?

[Mohammad_Alsaleh]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:31:08AM +0300, Mohammad_Alsaleh wrote:
> 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.

s/wildly/widely