Re: Diety UI draft
Mark Baker wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
>
> > 2) Intelligently install packages to the system as you download them
> > (i.e. download deb, install it, then delete it.)
> > PRO: It means downloading remote files will not fill you local
> > filesystem.
> > CON: You still need space enough for one package.
>
> You can't stop downloading between packages, or you'll doubling everyone's
> phone bill; if you continue downloading in the background, then you're
> likely to get a whole lot of unextracted packages queued anyway.
Realisticly, how many packages do you expect to download over a
telephone line in the time it takes to install even the biggest
package? Let's assume for a moment that it takes 10 mins to
download a largish package. Using a 28.8 modem you're not likely
to be able to download anymore than 1.5M of packages in the meantime.
That's well below the reserved 5% of the 100M partition we were taking
about. Not to mention that if you've only got 5 Meg free on your
partition, you shouldn't be installing any more packages anyways!
Anyways, this is not necessarily how it's going to be done. I deal
with the UI only, and this is not a UI problem.
Thanks,
Behan
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