On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 04:21:04PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > The project could offer 18 language files for a voice recognition
> > > system, which is ( unpacked ) up to 2.4 GB each and packed upto around
> > > 1.6~1.8 GB each. + 18 small ones ~50-60 MB each.
[...]
> But it's totally fine to ship such things in Fedora. We've done it
> before and we'll continue doing so. External downloaders are pretty
> much only used when something is unshippable.

In this case, I can *definitely* see the value in having these packaged
directly, because I can imagine IoT and desktop use cases where — even at
that size — voice recognition would be important to have "out-of-the-box"
without needing further Internet access.

Marius, are the different language packs updated continually and separately,
or is there one versioned set of all of them released at intervals? Is it a
case where everything is regenerated, or are additions incremental? (And do
they _replace_ or just add?)

It does seem like it'd be nice to have a way to deliver (officially from
Fedora in a way that can be shipped in Spins and containers) static files
that don't change, without needing to redownload gigabytes on upgrade. Of
course, delta RPMs are one way, but need a lot of investment in actually
working again. Ostree deltas are another — and maybe upcoming work on
container deltas could be helpful.

(And... I think it'd be useful in a lot of cases to be able to do dist-git
-> container without needing to build RPMs as an intermediate step. But...
that's not a thing we have now.)

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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