Package: apt Version: 0.1.9 Severity: wishlist apt-get helpfully gives information about how many bytes it needs to download. However, apt-get --no-act does not produce this information. It would be nice if you still got the 'Need to get 78k of archives' message even with --no-act. Then you could use --no-act to see if what you were about to do would involve a larger download than you expected, rather than having to run apt for real and ctrl-C it in mid-operation.
It could perhaps also say where it would get a package from (which source), although I wouldn't personally find that fantastically useful; it's just something I thought of whilst looking at the difference between --no-act and normal output. Example apt output, with and without --no-act: zircon# apt-get --no-act install file Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded. Inst file Conf file zircon# apt-get install file Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded. Need to get 78.6k of archives. After unpacking 16.0k will be used. Get ftp://ftp.demon.net frozen/main file [78.6k] Fetched 78.6k in 44s (1785b/s) (Reading database ... 20341 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace file 3.24-4 (using file_3.26-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement file ... Setting up file (3.26-1) ... Peter Maydell
