Jesse Keating wrote:
I really don't want to add this midstream to a released product. The right
process here is to get it working in rawhide during the open development
cycle, start producing the content for it at the source, have it mirrored out
and get more and more people beating on it during rawhide. If it survives
and makes it into the released product as a default, that's awesome, from
that point on we use it. Trying to start at a released product and port
forward just seems backwards to me, and not something I want to expose all of
our "stable" Fedora 6 users to.
You don't expose them really to any additional risks by default. If the
delta rpms are already mirrored, yum just ignores them without the
plugin. Since the plugin is already in Fedora Extras users just would
have install them explicitly to use the delta rpms. The plugin falls
back to downloading the full rpm if the delta rpm fails or is not
available.
Rahul