Package: apt Version: 0.5.5.1 Severity: wishlist
Debian depends a great deal on the generosity of its academic and private partners to provide all the bandwidth for hosting apt's extensive software archive. Ease of installation of this enormous variety of software is one of Debian's biggest strengths and the list of packages continues to grow. As more and more packages grow in size and releases of unstable software see thousands of users upgrading daily, perhaps bittorrent could be integrated into apt for certain packages at the servers discretion. The nano package probably doesn't need it, but OpenOffice might. I don't code so I'm afraid all I can do is ask. How severe are the technical challenges? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tones 2.4.20 #1 Wed May 28 18:54:01 PDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.1-0pre0 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.1-0pre0 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
