[Development] Changes to Qt offering

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 09:28:53 CET 2020


On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 08:58, Bogdan Vatra <bogdan.vatra at kdab.com> wrote:
> > Qt installer resumes downloads after a network connection break.
> > apt-get does not. :)
>
>   You must be kidding, apt it's (one of) the best package manager! It resumes
> the download(s) from the same point from where the connection dropped.

Ah, I must have used apt-get with bad servers that didn't accept a
resume, then. But hey,
Qt installer doesn't even abort, it hangs around, and you can do a
"suspend your laptop, go
home, resume the computer and resume the download too" as if nothing
happened, whereas
apt-get will not do that. :P


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