[packagekit] Packagekit information

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 15:49:45 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:39 -0300, Vladimir Melo wrote:
> Packagekit is really easy, but I miss some information like download
> speed and estimated time. I don't know if my download is coming or
> not, for example.

We've got time to completion, but not really any download speed. I'm not
sure it's useful.

> Are you planning to add this kind of information soon?

Time is tricky. Estimating time is even harder. If you look at the
PkTime code you'll see that there is lots of code to do the estimation,
but nothing works well.

Ideas welcome :-)

Richard






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