Hi ! On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:47:21AM -0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski [...] > > As Julian Taylor mentioned, there is also another side of the same > > problem: aptitude itself can be improved so that it is able to > > download and unpack in parallel. If it were doing this then the lock > > would be justified. > > As far as I know, apt-get already downloads in parallel. Not sure > about aptitude.
I think it does, when on different servers IIRC. But I believe what Stanislas mean is to unpack while downloading the rest of the packages. I often wondered why it wasn't the case, but I've assumed so far that there was probably a reason I just could not think of :) Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110204191045.gc25...@hebus.troy.local
