I mean to have aria2 in the *default installation*, alongside with wget. aria2 supercedes wget because it allows multithreaded segmented downloads, which can potentially speed up download by 5-10 times. And the size of aria2 is very small anyway. Yes we install wget by default for scripts, but we should encourage these scripts to be converted to aria2, by installing aria2 *alongside wget* by default. (as mentioned by J Scott Gwin)
Quoting Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com>: > Adding a full MB CD for this does not seem adequate to me, and having > it > installed by default would be the only real reason to put it into > main. > We ship wget by default which suits 99% of use cases (for the few > users > who use command line tools for web retrieval in the first place). > > Since wget is also used by a lot of scripts, we probably have to > install > it by default anyway, thus the size impact of aria2 would be even > bigger. > > So again, what is to be gained from having aria2 in main, but not in a > default installation? > > -- > MIR - include aria2 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344642 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- MIR - include aria2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344642 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
