Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apt
apt-get apparently currently uses some simple wget-type sequential
download algorithm for all its functions that download anything from the
net, like update, install, dist-upgrade, upgrade, build-dep, source etc.
This really does not well use the available broadband bandwidth of most
users. Hence I am forced to use home-cooked scripts to extract the URLs
to download and then pass them to aria2 (GPL) to download, so that the
thing is done faster.
Granted, the user may not want his entire bandwidth hogged by apt-get,
but at least provide this as an option -- use a faster split-download
algorithm, or at least use a good backend downloader like aria2 which
provides high-speed downloading.
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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apt-get must use faster download algorithms or aria2 as a backend downloader
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275994
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