Control: retitle -1 synaptic: pause downloads Control: merge -1 510117 "Fred Cooper" <tweak1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I usually only use Synaptic for when I'm downloading several packages and > related packages at once, and when I do, it tends to be a very large > download. I'm sharing a network on DSL, so sometimes, a pause feature would > be nice for when the other people on my network are bitching at me for using > all of the bandwidth, but I can't pause it without cancelling the download, > thus keeping them cut off for another long while.
Best implemented with support in apt. Note that with current versions if you cancel the download and later restart the same operation it will resume from where it was interupted. While not labelled as pause–resume, the effect of stop–start is exactly the same. > Another feature I'd love > to have is the ability to limit the bandwidth synaptic uses. This is already implemented, in apt. See apt.conf(5) for this option: Acquire::http::Dl-Limit Set it to e.g. "200" to limit http downloads to 200 kilobytes per second. There is also the program trickle, which can be used to apply throttle the bandwidth of any application. > Something else > I'd like to see is the ability to export a list of marked packages to save > them for later, when you're ready to download them. Yes, see ‘File|Save Markings’. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
