On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 8:48 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
What we're doing now — as has been the case for several years,
already noted
in the previous discussion — has very little end-user value.
While occasionally I have seen a small decrease in
the size of the files transferred (which certainly can
benefit some people some of the time), the total
elapsed time of the transaction has always ended
up being higher as the recreation of the original
rpm exceeds the time that it would have taken
me to just download the full new rpm (with an
admittedly reasonably high speed network
provider in my environment).
However, that is an end user experience. What
about the mirror providers? Even a small
percentage of bandwidth savings might be
useful for them (depending on their cost model)
at the scale(s) they may be operating. Has
anyone asked those providers, or do all (or
most) now have a network cost structure
such that it does not matter?