* Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> [151208 04:33]: > ]] Marvin Renich > > I set Acquire::Pdiffs::FileLimit "3"; and have been much happier. Why > > this (or something near this) wasn't the default from the start, I don't > > know. The current default is an extremely poor choice. Perhaps someone > > should file a bug (serverity critical :-P) to get the default changed. > > I believe this has already been discussed,
Oh, I missed that discussion. Was changing the default rejected, or is it on the todo list, or was there no resolution? > but what you really want is > to do reverse diffs from today to dates in the past, not incremental > diffs in the other direction. That may be a better solution, but if mirror operators are not willing to put up with the churn, then changing the default FileLimit seems like the right (and obvious) compromise. I don't see any downside to changing the default, and it will give significant benefit. If the idea was rejected, I would really like to know why. I've changed my config, so it is not really bothering me, personally. But I would like the default to give the majority of Debian users the best experience; the current setup does not. ...Marvin
