On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:58:36 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 10:56 +0100, Polarian wrote: > > Secondly, you can not do partial upgrades like that > > Hi, > > that's not always correct. This month I downloaded embree from IIRC > staging. In the past I did this with packages from testing, too. > > I downloaded the package and installed it with "pacman -U". The reason > for this was, that there was a conflict by the official repositories. > This partial upgrade fixed the conflict. > > Regards, > Ralf > You can do that, but you should *expect* things to break. Up to and including making your system unbootable. If you do something like that, you're on your own, Arch is not designed for it. But it's your system, do whatever you want. Doug
