On 09/19/2015 06:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:16:11 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: >> You can always do 'pacman -Syuw' until you manage to download all the >> packages. > > A pacman -Syu will do the same as a pacman -Syuw when it can't download > all packages ;). However, a user perhaps wants to update a few packages > that are important for development or regarding security issues and > might try to update other packages some days later, then Syu(w) isn't > an option. IMO we don't need to discuss this, likely most Arch users > don't suffer from bad Internet connections. Even if others should have > bad Internet connections too, it seldom happens that the dependency > issue for something important as the login shell happens. > > Regards, > Ralf > Have you considered using delta[1] packages? They're at their best when in a situation like yours, where the time+cpu patching and recompressing the packages is significantly less than the time trying to download hundreds of megabytes over a lousy connection. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Deltup -- Eli Schwartz
