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> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 10:54 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
>> On 6 October 2014 09:41, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
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>>> 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
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148208
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>> "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."
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>> 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.)
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> The deltarpms were meant to serve two purposes
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> 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.