[pacman-dev] TotalDownload option.

[Aaron Griffin]

On Nov 9, 2007 10:25 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Be careful, we'll need at least 10 other people to put money in to
rival one Canadian's two cents.