Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Followup-For: Bug #156578
Ya -- 4 requests on what should be a fairly high-priority basic feature. On a bug that really should be classified as "Serious" or similar AFAIC. And, no, "do it yourself" is _not_ an option here (what a lousy cop-out knee-jerker that one is...) We all can't be full-time Debian mavens. Even half-time, unfortunately. Some of us have to fight fascism -- while others supply the open OS to do it with... Division of labor and all that. Remember? Long ago, apt-get should have incorporated something along the lines of the wget '--limit-rate' command-line switch, as has been mentioned earlier. It has always been an obvious priority (and I need not get into why) -- but has consistently been shunted aside for some reason. Just how incredibly hard could this little project be?? It concerns a fundamental piece of Debian, and will likely affect millions of Debian users in future! (Probably in countries without much cable infrastructure.) In a system based on volunteer labor, we can all wait. But going on how many years, now, have we been waiting on this thing? Consider this a request to make this wishlist item an *actual bug*, somewhere below (but not far below, eh?) "Release Critical". As for the hacks: they have never worked for me. But maybe I'm just too stupid to understand why jumping thru hoops is an acceptable substitute for what should be normal procedure in any case. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.20 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
