just something what everyboday should know if he/she doesn'T know it yet, i was bitten by it and i am pissed :/.
hi, i just got bitten by this bug and it just pisses me off. downloading 220 megs and all silently deleted because base-config configures apt so that it gets the .debs from two different servers, i.e. non-us and the usual stuff. and non-us times out usually. and DO NOT have a small bandwidth, 512kbit/s isn't just a dial up user. but all the bandwidth is sucked up with the downloading the non non-us software. and the other regularly times out. and when i go to retry then, assuming that it just gets the 2 failed packages, IT DOWNLOADS THE WHOLE DAMN THIGN AGAIN! AGAIN 200 MEGS OF .DEBS. that's NOT funny. this simply sucks and pisses me off. the users should AT LEAST get the choice to decide whether to delete the downloaded .debs. everything else is just BRAINDEAD. i have a decently fast internet connection but for everyone else this would be just a nightmare. AND, maybe not in the us, but in europe one gets their amount of traffic accounted, meaning that you have to pay if you go beyond a certain limit. which is at about 1-2 gig at my isp. so i waste 1/5th of my amount for this stupid brainless bug. you should just allow one connection at a time AND ask the user whether he wants to delete the .debs otherwise the whole retry point is brainless and just not seriously meant (i just lack the vocabulary to make the point more clearly). i hope you fix that. thanks Othmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
