>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joe> apt-get update is annoyingly slow for modem-based users, and
Joe> also puts an unnecessarily heavy load on the servers, for the
Joe> common case where only a small change is made to the Packages
Joe> or Source file for a part of the distribution. I just sucked
Joe> down a megabyte-sized file to find that one line had changed,
Joe> for a package I don't care about. Why can't apt-get update
Joe> send diffs to these large files rather than sending whole
Joe> files?
Joe> One possibility would be to just build the thing on top of
Joe> anonymous CVS. CVS already knows how to just send the changes
Joe> to a file.
another possibility == rsync.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
