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Re: Bug#31539: apt: Wishlist: x/N status indicator during downloads



On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 servis@purdue.edu wrote:

> To me having the number of packages would be informative if at 98% I
> have 8/24 packages and still have say 30m of download left compared to
> 98% with 21/24 and 4m left.  The first senario would quickly let me know
> that there were a few large sized packages mixed in with a bunch of
> small ones as compared to the second case were I would see that only a
> few small packages are left.  

But why do you care? The size/number of packages does not really have an
impact on the transfer time. 

Jason


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