On Dec 14, 2014 10:12 PM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > > Sudhir Khanger wrote: > > Most decision are being made on two assumptions 1. people have fast and > > unlimited internet connections and 2. people have high RAM and multiple > > core CPU powerful computers. Both of these assumptions are arbitrarily at > > best. DNF regularly downloads cache, disables delta RPM support, > > It's actually ENABLING DeltaRPM support (as the latest DNF update now does) > that makes assumption 2. DeltaRPMs reduce download bandwidth consumption at > the expense of a lot of CPU power. It's a tradeoff between 1. and 2. If you > have 1. more than 2. (as is the case for me), then DeltaRPMs actually make > your updates slower. If you have 2. more than 1., they make your updates > faster.
I don't know why the time to rebuild rpms is important, updates are now applied at boot time, so rpms can be rebuilt with smaller nice/ionice before the user reboots (on Workstation product). Meanwhile bandwidth cost money. > > Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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