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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> if the goal is to design an informative download indicator menu, i
> seriously would want to consider listing *all* download bandwidth
> relevant processes the user called himself - including update
> manager's package downloads..

I think it makes more sense to restrict the usage of a download
indicator to specific "I want to save this file here" request.
This is not the case for an update, the download is simply part
of the process and later access to the file is not required. In
fact, I configure Synaptic to delete the file after installation.

If we start putting everything that involves downloading in the
indicator, where do we draw the line? The update manager starts
by downloading update versions of the repository index, and I
am certainly *not* interested in knowing the details of that.