Suggestion
Hi, all!
I want to make a suggestion. Many persons like me have only
a 14400 modem, without CDROM and/or sound-card. Here from
Brazil, the connection speed to ftp.debian.org is below
0.4 kbps. And the worst is that the other mirrors I tried,
like farofa.ime.usp.br (wich is about 10 km from here) are
more slow (!).
When I have to do a download of a 2.0 Mb updated debian
package, my connection bill increases tremendously! :-)
So, I think that a good thing would be a bin-diff distribution.
When a package is updated from, say, 2.0.3-2 to 2.0.3-5,
a bin-diff distribution can decrease very much that bill.
Instead of downloading a 2.0 Mb new package, I probably
want to make a 100 kb download. The time to execute
the undiff is very less than that of download.
I saw that there is a diff distribution for sources. Another
to the binaries isn't much dificult, specially in rex, is it?
That's all. Some suggestion?
Alexander Gieg
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By: Alexander Gieg
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