On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:49 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
On 1/9/07, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com> 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