Hi On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs > to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to > make a complete upgrade in one step. So a note by the Arch news IMO > still is useful. > Pacman downloads all packages before installing any of them. So if you have a bad Internet connection then you'll be stuck at the first (download) step. It will not leave your system in broken state.