On Monday, November 01, 2010 05:41:08 am you wrote:
> See http://packagekit.org/pk-intro.html and watch the video for detailed
> information about PK :)
> 
> > Open this worthless product. Click on Development Packages. Click on
> > Anjuta IDE. Do you see a download size presented? No.
> 
> Actually: Yes

Well I don't using 64-bit AMD KUbuntu 10.04, and neither does anybody else 
I've talked with.

> 
> > This project is a COMPLETE and TOTAL failure. It meets only the "me too"
> > developer needs who happen to have a limitless cable connection and does
> > not even begin to address the needs of the "average" user
> 
> For exactly this reason we have bugreports. If you think something's wron
> with a software, you can ask for a fix, like you did two times for KPK and
> for PK. PK was developed to offer applications access to package
> management features without knowing which package manager is running
> exactly in background, which offers some great new possibilities which for
> sure address the needs of average users (automatic
> codec/font/mime/driver/plugin installation and much more)
> 
> This bugreport will expire in about 50 days. You should be glad someone
> worked on this issue and provided a fix for it, so you can now try the
> "new" functionality. If it works: Good. If not: We will wok on that. If
> PK uses all available bandwidth this indeed is a serious issue, which
> has to be fixed.
> 
> (Btw: It was absolutely not decision "to satisfy a "me too" programmer".
> Read some more about PK and you'll understand why.)

It absolutely was a "me too" programmer decision.  There was absolutely no 
reason to replace synaptic and even less reason to remove the previous update 
manager WHICH ALSO SHOWED A USER THE SIZE OF EACH DOWNLOAD PRIOR TO COSTING 
THEM OVER $1000 IN BANDWIDTH OVERAGES.


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kpackagekit waxes all Internet bandwidth until reboot
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