On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 03:09:55PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 16 March 2018 at 22:13, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > In other words: if we want to make this the default, we should quantify > > Daniel's remark that he would prefer a 6% faster download over a 10% faster > > unpack. > > > > Well, I think it does not make sense to think about this in absolute > terms. Thinking about user stories is better. > > A stable series user will be mostly upgrading packages from -security > and -updates. The download speed and/or size of debs does not matter > much in this case, as these are scheduled to be done in the background > over the course of the day, via unattended upgrades download timer. > Installation speed matters, as that is the window of time when the > system is actually somewhat in a maintenance mode / degraded > performance (apt is locked, there are CPU and disk-io loads).
I'd like us to have https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/DeltaDebs this would mostly solve that problem too. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel