> 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.