I agree with the idea that Ben suggested of not enabling deltas by default and giving users the option until a certain time where it can be phased out fully.
I remember in my personal experience that delta slowed down update durations. On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, 15:40 Ben Cotton, <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 3:48 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > > What we're doing now — as has been the case for several years, already > noted > > in the previous discussion — has very little end-user value. Also as > noted > > in that thread (as in the ticket)... that's unfortunate, because it did > > bring some real benefits (and could possibly do even more.) > > The fact that the value of deltas requires frequent updates means that > most people don't get the benefit. And since delta RPMs trade > bandwidth for CPU, it probably makes things worse for folks in > developing countries. So I agree, it's probably not worth keeping > deltas as the default. > > > But, I think it's time to move on. We have ostree and various > > container-delta approaches. We should focus on those — and give > DeltaRPMs a > > sad, fond farewell. > > Could we do this as a two-step approach? First change the default to > not use deltas but still allow people to opt-in to it. Then (assuming > we can track this, which maybe we can't) see how much they're used > before we decide to pull the plug on producing them. > > -- > Ben Cotton > He / Him / His > Fedora Program Manager > Red Hat > TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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