Bug#990451: apt: the --no-all-versions option not working as documented
> I think you meant All*Versions*, not Names.
Oh, right.. must have been a copy-paste error.
> fwiw: I don't know about aptitude and if you think it should get some
> feature I suppose you should report it there, but for apt(-get) I have
> to note that both display "download size" as the size of all *.deb
> files to be downloaded from non-local (that mostly means non-file:/)
> sources…
Thanks! That’s useful indeed.
> Not sure about the later "each source location"… that can turn out to be
> a lot of details for not that much gain: a typical Debian stable has
> 'normal', 'updates' and 'security'. You could add 'proposed' and e.g.
> 'backports' and a random set of 3rd parties like the typical Ubuntu user
> with seemingly 42+ PPAs added. That is 3+X counters useless even to you
> as you were just interested in the data coming from your local mirror
> vs. others. And that would assume that all mirrors are complete and
> available, no retries, no fallbacks, no redirects.
Indeed the cloud vs. local counts are the most useful. I was thinking
in terms of luxury. Many different sources being fetched in parallel
would give the expectation of a fast fetch. And if some are fetched
over tor or a slow host, it would also give an indication of time. And
if something comes from a Tor source and your in a place that blocks
Tor, that’s marginally useful information. But indeed the effort
would not be justfied with apt and apt-get already giving what’s
needed.
>From there, I suppose my use-case does not justify making
--no-all-versions function. But the man page should at least reflect
reality.
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