> I wonder if you can get away with not doing parallel downloads, but just keep the sequential downloads going in the background while it is installing a packag

> I wonder if you can get away with not doing parallel downloads, but just keep the sequential downloads going in the background while it is installing a package? I could be wrong, but I believe multiple people, including maintainers, have looked into exactly that :-) (I also need to correct myself: there is some work ongoing into concurrent downloads[1]. That work hasn't hit `brew install` yet, where I imagine the question of concurrent traffic volume will become more pressing.) [1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/18278 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/18278