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#1 2008-12-08 00:59:05
- piete
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Pacman improvement suggestion - total loading time
Hi! Sorry if this issue has already been dealed but I couldn't find it at least with the forum's search function and this section gets so many messages every day that I couldn't browse too far. And at least it is not yet implemented in pacman 
Anyway, I'm new to Arch with most of my previous linux experience with Debian/Ubuntu. I did not have any problems starting using pacman after apt, but I read the Arch vs. Debian posts on both forums and somebody mentioned (don't remember which forum) that pacman only shows the expected loading time for individual packages and not the total loading time.
I don't know how difficult it would be to implement this to pacman, but I'm sure people would find it quite useful since normally we download more than one package. Plus it would take one argument away from Debian fanboys
I'm generally really pleased with Arch, I have had it only a few days and already learned a lot. It is still good that "easier" distros exist for beginners, but KISS philosophy suits me and I'm ready to enter a totally new level of linux experience.
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#2 2008-12-08 02:08:51
- Allan
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Re: Pacman improvement suggestion - total loading time
"man pacman.conf" and look at TotalDownload
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#3 2008-12-08 02:21:22
- piete
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Re: Pacman improvement suggestion - total loading time
Well that was a quick implementation! 
I guess I should read the manuals a bit better, since the pacman man page already said that the pacman.conf manual existed, I had totally overlooked it. Sorry to bother, lesson learned. Anyway, thanks for pointing out the right place!
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#4 2008-12-08 03:10:16
- toofishes
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Re: Pacman improvement suggestion - total loading time
Yeah, we believe in man pages a lot more here than most distros, so you will find most of our internal tools well-documented in the man pages. See man PKGBUILD, makepkg, makepkg.conf, pacman, pacman.conf, and repo-add.
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#5 2008-12-08 11:51:04
- Xyne
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Re: Pacman improvement suggestion - total loading time
Powerpill not only displays the ETA by default, it also reduces it significantly
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