Hi Cal, Cal Leeming wrote: > For several months now I have been using apt-fast
It would have been nice to add a reference to that program name as that program is not part of Debian (and not of Ubuntu either). I assume you are talking about this apt-fast: https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast http://www.mattparnell.com/projects/apt-fast-and-axel-roughly-26x-faster-apt-get-installations-and-upgrades.html > as a wrapper for apt-get. apt-get != aptitude > In short, it concurrently downloads all packages to cache, before > handing back over to apt-get for running the installation. In every > situation I have used this, it has resulted in faster download > speeds. ... AFAIK using axel or aria2 as backends which AFAIK are basically opening multiple TCP connections downloading the file in parallel in parts. > Could a core dev please speculate on why similar functionality has not > yet been implemented by default? Is this on the roadmap? If not, would > such a feature ever be considered? aptitude-devel is the wrong list to ask this. Aptitude offloads downloading to libapt-* which is built by the apt source package. Cc'ing the and setting the Reply-To header to the APT developer mailing list, [email protected]. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
