On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:14 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 19:39 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > And no we will not just put them together, because re-releasing 300+ MB of > > gamedata because the binary needs recompiling for a new lib is not cool! > > Wouldn't binary deltas make this issue just go away? We could put > everything in the same package then and we wouldn't have to care about > update sizes like this. It depends on if the update you're doing is actually usefully delta-able. Compression, which is often used on game data, tends to get in the way of delta algorithms unless the compression is "smart" with regards to the delta. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
