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


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