Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.2-1 It's a good thing that aptitude downloads diffs instead of the full Packages.gz file for people who upgrade their system a lot. However, when doing it only once every few weeks, the sum of all the diffs seems to be larger than the Packages file itself. It thus actually costs a lot more time to download all the diffs instead of less.
AFAIK aptitude knows the size of the downloaded files before downloading them. It should only download the diffs if the sum of their sizes is smaller than the size of the Packages.gz file. If not, it should just download the Packages file only (as it does when the diffs are unavailable). Thanks, Bas Wijnen -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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