On 06.10.2014 16:46, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> >> >> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >>> On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> One of the long standing features that were enabled by default in yum is >>>> support for delta rpms. dnf developers have disabled this and I think >>>> this >>>> change deserves a broader discussion >>>> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148208 >>>> >>> >>> "I have an internet flatrate at 150 mbs, and downloading the full rpms >>> is ALOT faster than the the work that the delta rpms requires." >>> >>> Wow. Good to see normal users are taken into account. The main >>> argument from a distro point of view is reducing load on servers, but >>> I don't know many people on 150Mbs either. Heck, I've just tested my >>> work janet connection and that's <100Mbs in our office. At home 8Mbps >>> is a good day. (I'm assuming mbs is a typo for Mbps and not milli bit >>> seconds, where the very slow transfer speed declines exponentially as >>> the connection progresses.) >> >> >> The deltarpms were meant to serve two purposes >> >> 1) (lesser) Address the needs of users in developing countries (where >> Fedora is fairly popular) and bandwidth concerns are very considerable. >> Many of these users have connections that are either metered or >> extremely slow, so deltarpms provides a way to get the data to them more >> economically. This of course can be handled with a non-default option, >> so we can talk about making that more discoverable if we disable them by >> default. > > This is a good point but even in developing countries internet access is > getting better and better. A few years ago installation DVD was the only > way how to access Fedora repo. It's not requested anymore. But yeah, I do > not live there. > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2013-December/119412.html Rejy, speak! poma -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
