* Matthew Miller:
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:30:10AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > I also remember when this was a killer feature for Fedora, and without any
> > real way of judging use and demand, I'm hesitant to kill it off.
>
> Is it really saving bandwidth, though? The reported savings are
> generally very small for me. Downloading the metadata costs something
> as well.
If we made a lot more of them, they could save significant bandwidth.
The metadata would also be much larger, and so would be the battery
usage to recompress the payload. 8-(
Thanks,
Florian
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