[pacman-dev] TotalDownload option.

[Dan McGee]

On Nov 9, 2007 12:55 AM, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 7:56 PM, Nathan Jones <nathanj at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
> > :: Retrieving packages from core...
> >  gcc-libs-4.2.2-2-i686   1081.1K  503.8K/s 00:00:02 [#--------------------]   8%
> >  gcc-4.2.2-3-i686          10.0M  302.1K/s 00:00:34 [################-----]  77%
> > :: Retrieving packages from extra...
> >  gcc-fortran-4.2.2-1-...   12.9M  338.0K/s 00:00:39 [#####################] 100%
>
> How about having the way the progress hashes were previously done
> retained and only change the percent numbers? This way you get the
> best of both worlds - progress for the current package as well as
> total progress. Otherwise, like gcc-libs above, there is going to be
> very little visual feedback while smaller packages are downloaded.
> That's what I think I would like best anyway... otherwise it feels too
> incomplete to see all of these "------" for packages.
>
> My two American cents, which are rapidly becoming worthless.

Ooo. I like this, so we are up to 4 cents on it.

-Dan