Re: [Synaptic-devel] Two RFEs in download window

[Matevz Jekovec]

oleksandr korneta wrote:

>on 08/16/2005 11:49 AM Matevz Jekovec wrote:
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>>Nice two features when downloading the packages would be:
>>1) pause/resume button - in case you'd want to quickly download
>>something else beside in another application and would temporarily need
>>as high bandwidth as possible.
>>2) download in background button - if you still wanted to search a few
>>    
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>
>I vote for this!
>Both features would be greatly appreciated.
>I'm just thinking that in case of inmplementing the second one, once the
>packages are downloaded synaptic should ask "install?", because in order
>to install it probably needs to lock the access to the packages database
>anyway, so browsing is not possible.
>  
>
No, I think apt-cache is used for the viewing/searching/browsing
packages operations, which can operate on the locked database as well.


Regards.
- Matevž

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