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On 09.04.2013 19:41, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:36:05 -0400
> "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am curious to know why anyone would not want to use the deltarpms?
>> It works well and I am always looking for ways to save bandwidth, the 
>> smaller the files I download the better.
> 
> It's a trade off. It saves you bandwith at the cost of local disk space
> and cpu time. 
> 
> If you have a very fast connection it's usually much faster to just
> download the full updates. 
> 
> if you have a very slow cpu or low on disk space, assembling the deltas
> can make things a great deal slower. 
> 
> If you have a slow or metered connection, and lots of cpu/disk, then
> deltas are indeed a big win. 

+1

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