On 2/22/23 10:39, Ben Cotton 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.
That would be absolutely awesome. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ 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
