On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:43, lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Now why can't this retry a decent number of times (like 10) by itself ? It already does, you're just failing the number of times that get retried (which is 5, if I remember off the top of my head correctly, with a decent sleep between each try). > And if it does have a problem and needs help getting some packages why > can't it wait to the end to say so for all affected packages at once ? The order that packages get installed matters somewhat significantly. Jeremy