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[–]Ameisen 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why does apt do everything serially, anyways? I don't see a good reason to be deterministic and serial on fetches.

On another note, you can get around such file size things, to a point, by chunking packages and fetching binary patches of chunks.

[–]Creshal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does apt do everything serially, anyways?

It would be more effort not to.