Bug#432675: Wishlist: Conary-like functionality in apt
Package: APT
Version: N/A
Severity: Wishlist
Architecture: All
Conary is a novel GPL-incompatible package manager which downloads only the portions of a package which include changes from the package currently installed, greatly reducing bandwidth strain on the repository severs, and greatly speeding up updates for users.
While I am not a programmer (otherwise I'd have just submitted a proposed patch with this wishlist), this cannot be too much more difficult that running a diff comparison on the installed package configuration, and the updated one, and then just downloading and overwriting those files which are different.
Hence this would be a great addition to the marvelous package manager which is apt (and one of the reasons I wont use rPath linux, is its not debian based, heh).
=)
Regards,
Matthew
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