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[Kevin Fenzi]

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. 

kevin

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