Summary and Info:
i'd like to see parallel transfers implemented directly in pacman. we can download two or more packages at the same time and we can also download each package from different mirror. we can also -Sy repo indexeses from all repositories parallely.

i know that there are some wrappers like powerpill, etc... but i don't like them much and i think that such feature should be implemented directly in pacman. pacman can use 3rd party binaries ("XferCommand") to download the packages and other files, so i believe that such commands can be run on background...

but clean output of pacman should be also preserved... eg.: apt-get is able to process more files parallely, but it looks like vomiting 50 litres of some ugly sh*t into the terminal. there should be some nice progress bar showing overall process and not leaving mess on screen or maybe there can be multiple progressbars (one for each running process). anyway the clean look of pacman output should be definitely preserved, but parallel transfers are really usefull feature...

peace