I am proposing a feature in apt-get

[Rani Ahmed <ranixlb@gmail.com>]

Hi. I hope I sending the correct mailing list.

Well.. I noticed that the web caching proxy of my ISP allows me to download any small file , probably having a size of less than 100kB at the wire speed (full speed), and any big one on a slower shaped speed.

And I think many ISP's follow the same method. So, this is what I think that apt-get should do as long as it displays the total sum of mega bytes to download before the download starts. apt-get has to sort the package file sizes and download the smaller package files first. Any small package file of course won't be greater than 100kB. 

I know I can write a shell script for it. But having such a feature built-in would be very nice. It can speed up the download.

Thanks.