Bug#463354: Incremental patching of Packages is slow

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463354
> It sometimes maxes out the CPU and perhaps crashed my little Openmoko
> FreeRunner. Might be worth the tradeoff to set apt.conf(5) directive
> Acquire::PDiffs false;

I agree. (I even mentioned this in the install.sh feedback I sent last
month:

From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
To: pkg-fso-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: openmoko install.sh feedback
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:36:27 +0300

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4) With debian unstable "apt-get update -o Acquire::PDiffs=false" is
   often faster than "apt-get update" if the network connection is
   fast. Would this make a good default? (It might not be good for
   those who upgrade over gprs)


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