Bug#111879: apt-get: wishlist: random download order for better HTTP cache hit rate -- should be closed?
Hello,
After a spam e-mail reaching deity@, I was reading the thread of
messages of the bug and I think that it should be closed.
The discussion is about whether it makes sense or not to download in
random order, to improve cache hit rate and network performance. The
issue is 14 years old, and 7 years ago (2008) even the submitter
declared that it didn't matter for their usecase due to improvement in
bandwidth and network technologies of his organisation.
Perhaps it wouldn't be hard to implement an extra option to provide
this functionality, but it is also adding complexity for little gain,
because (unless there are other reports asking for the same feature)
this only gathered the original submitter as supporter and a couple of
rejections, including apt's creator/maintainer at the time.
By now, I think that this report is only gathering dust and spam, so
(as a random bystander, no authority as maintainer or anything) I
think that it's better to close it. Perhaps I do it myself if nobody
else reacts/complains in a while.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
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