Comment 2 for bug 209681

Revision history for this message
KarlGoetz (kgoetz) wrote : Re: [Bug 209681] Re: apt should download small packages first
  • unnamed Edit (189 bytes, application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc)

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 14:08 +0000, Volodya wrote:
> It does sound like a good idea, but the reasoning behind the last
> statement is incorrect. The fact that the package is small doesn't imply
> that it is a dependancy rather than a dependant, plugins will be smaller
> the main package more often than not, but it actually is useless to
> download them if you cannot get the large dependancy.

true enough.

>
> Also i thought that apt-get resumes on partially downloaded files, or am
> i incorrect?

that is correct.
kk