*- Jason Gunthorpe wrote about "Re: Bug#31539: apt: Wishlist: x/N status indicator during downloads" > > On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> To me having the number of packages would be informative if at 98% I >> have 8/24 packages and still have say 30m of download left compared to >> 98% with 21/24 and 4m left. The first senario would quickly let me know >> that there were a few large sized packages mixed in with a bunch of >> small ones as compared to the second case were I would see that only a >> few small packages are left. > > But why do you care? The size/number of packages does not really have an > impact on the transfer time. > > Jason >
I just installed apt-0.3.0 and noticed that now the Get lines list the current number of the download like 'Get:1 ...'. This is along the lines of what I was refering to and can be compared to the totals line that is listed just before the downloads start(5 packages upgraded,...) But to make life easier for a user, during a large download that might scroll off the screen, I still think that it would be nice if the total number of packages to be download could be listed, i.e. 'Get:1/24 ...'. Thanks Brian
