On 12/18/05, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the biggest problem is really updates. Packages like > XFree86 (no X.org) and Openoffice.org are *huge*. A simple security > update to one of those packages causes all subordinate binary packages > to get a version bump. That means that if there was a bug in the > XFree86 driver for video card foo and I use video card bar, I still get > download a many dozens of MB update. IIRC, something similar caused a > major strain on security.debian.org shortly after the Sarge release. > > If we focus our energy on anything to reduce bandwidth, it should be > making apt/dpkg smart enough to only need to grab the single changed > binary package out of the 50 produced by source package foo, or maybe to > employ and rsync-like approach.
It would be nice to make it even smarter and grab only the files that actually changed instead of the entire package.
