How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

[Matthew Momjian]

I have seen synaptic and Add/Remove programs do multithreaded downloads.

Matthew

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yueyu lin wrote:
> As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed
> that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But
> synaptic seems seldom to do this.
> I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify codes to
> support active multiple threads downloading. But it doesn't appear. I guess
> developers think it's impolite to fork a lot of threads to download things
> from server. The server may only serve for a few *rude* people. If it's
> true, I will stop any attempts to do so. If it's not,I can have a try to do
> this.
> 
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