On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:21 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> Kamil Paral wrote: > > Well for the general user, everything is one-time. One download, one > write > > to USB, one install. Saving a minute in one step and adding it to a > > different step doesn't really matter, it's the same sum overall (unless > > you pay considerable money for the extra downloaded data, of course). > > But the larger download will take several minutes extra even on a low-end > "broadband" connection. On slower connections, which are still standard in > parts of the world, it will take hours longer. > Sorry, but your argument is just wrong. We've had a similar discussion regarding RPM payload compression and so we know we're talking about small percent number increase by changing the compression, if any. That means a few tens of MBs for e.g. the Workstation image. And if you spend *hours* to download the extra 50 MBs, that means you're on a dial-up connection and the whole image would take you a *week* to download. This whole example is simply unrealistic. Anyone who has a problem to download extra 50-100 MBs can hardly use Fedora at all, because even the first dnf metadata update will consume exactly this amount of data, and then they will be presented with 1 GB worth of system updates. Not to mention we're talking here about removing the nested ext4 filesystem, which is likely to *reduce* the image size (and combined with changing the compression type can equal out to no change at all). It makes no sense to pre-emptively hate the discussed changes. Let's try them and then discuss the cost/benefit of the output with actual numbers in hand.
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