> Does anyone have any interest in implementing it? Or is it a no-go? > Would you accept patches if it was implemented? (No promises). yes someone has sent me patches - I'm not entirely happy about it being done at all, I think, but i'm slowly being worn down. > Simply because we run a repository at the end of a "256kbps" link. > There are a number of reasons for that which I won't bother you with. > If someone sets up a new box, and wants to perform an full upgrade and > then someone else hits the repository, download speeds suffers a lot. > It is better to try again later. Of course, not such an issue in a > University. > > Anyway, we are interested in all of these and we would/could consider > implementing them if we felt that there was interest and a chance that > they would get migrated. Again, no promises. it's just a matter of changing the progress callback to report speed. not hard, just not priority, either. -sv
