On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:49 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote: > On 1/9/07, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 1/9/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Asking them to download 100s of MB during the installation is a mistake. > > > > Then they will have to download the 100s of MB through downloads! > > In the end, it is the same thing. > > Downloading hundreds of different files is much slower than > downloading one file of the same size. Only if having a very reliable and fast connection. With low bandwidth or unreliable connections, the opposite applies. > Also, the initial spin is likely (?) to be downloaded via bittorrent, > which is not an option for yum when it needs individual packages. > > A single iso download can also feed multiple PCs (up to 5 in my case), > which is far more efficient than downloading the same hundreds of > files several times over. With a couple tricks applied (sharing yum caches over a network) yum can do the same. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
