"partial update" in this case means you update some packages without updating all of them (i.e. do 'pacman -Sy' followed by installing or upgrading any individu

"partial update" in this case means you update some packages without updating all of them (i.e. do 'pacman -Sy' followed by installing or upgrading any individual package). Usually what will happen is pacman will update those packages and any dependencies but not update any other packages will may now have been broken by that update . So if you were to pacman -Sy <program A> in this case then program B would probably be broken, and vice-versa (assuming any of the common deps have updated as well). If you were to update both then they might be fine but something else may break. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_...