On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > It sounds like something that would have been a cool feature 20 years > ago when I was downloading Debian updates over an analog modem. > > Today the required effort, infrastructure and added complexity would > IMHO not be worth it for a potential few percent of bandwidth decrease.
Low-speed connections and low bandwidth quotas (especially on mobile) are still common enough around the world that delta upgrades make a difference right now, IIRC even Google uses them for Chrome. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise