Re: proposal for a more efficient download process
Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> That is quite unacceptable. We have debs in debian up to 160Mb
> (packed) and 580Mb unpacked. That would require 2.7 Gb and nearly 10Gb
> ram respectively.
>
> Seems to be quite useless for patching full debs. One would have to
> limit it to a file-by-file approach.
True.. It'd probably only be efficient if the deltas were based on
the contents of the .deb's before they're packed.
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