On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Wouldn't you rather lead the other distributions who already have that
project goal? Let us lead, invent, whatever you want to call it. Let
them refine and present to the 'ordinary people'. Let us play to our
strengths, let them play to theirs. We win, they win, users win.
I don't think that works; in general doing infrastructure work without
reference to a user experience is going to result in a big mismatch
between the desired UI and what's available.
In this particular case it seems to me we want it to be a dynamic
property; e.g. if I start an update while on my mobile broadband card,
suspend in the middle of downloading, go to an office where I have a
local mirror, well ideally I'd be able to check a box in the UI to
toggle it (if it really mattered), or even better the system would use
some heuristics.
But obviously, you can't disable delta compression by doing a "yum
remove" in the middle of your download...