Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Blindauer Emmanuel wrote:
> 
> > because not everyone has fast internet line, and for example, when 
> > kde3.0.5a was updated, several Mo have to be downloaded. User should be 
> > able to dl firstly all packages, in several time, and wen all is present, 
> > update it. 
> 
> But this should be fixed in rpmdrake/MandrakeUpdate anyway. Just because 
> the user wants to install packages manually, doesn't mean he should be 
> forced to watch them. So, we could solve this and other problems if 
> MandrakeUpdate/rpmdrake had an option when downloading packages to do so 
> in the background (ie download all packages in one quiet window, and pop 
> up when all packages are downloaded).

You mean, a pause between downloads and install? Excuse my
ignorance but I haven't understood the reason for that? Note
that's different from what Emmanuel proposed, a.k.a download the
stuff in more than one time.

> Before gc tell my I suck again, I haven't used recent rpmdrake, so maybe 
> it does this already.

No :).

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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