Re: Bug#31539: apt: Wishlist: x/N status indicator during downloads

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Jason Gunthorpe wrote about "Re: Bug#31539: apt: Wishlist: x/N status indicator during downloads"
> 
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 servis@purdue.edu 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