On 2/4/20 11:08 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Since I'm unfamiliar with apt and other tools, what exactly do they do? > Given pacman/apt/your-choice-of-package-manager must somehow write to a > cachedir, e.g. /var/cache/pacman/pkg, it would need a dedicated download > user, which would then exclusively hold ownership of the cachedir. > > pacman is one big binary at the moment, it doesn't fork+exec to run > collections of binaries implementing different parts of the package > manager (which is actually a plus when it comes to speed), so this might > entail major re-architecturing of that part of pacman. Doing it for > external XferCommand programs could be a start. > > Is this a topic you're interested in exploring? I've opened a feature request for this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65401 -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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