Fedora Considers Dropping Delta RPMs

[brucethemoose]

IIRC Fedora rejected an x86-64-v3 version of packages because of hosting cost concerns, so that bit about bandwidth/disk usage being irrelevant seemed particularly strange.

[lovenemesis]

Frankly speaking, most of the GUI Apps I used today on Fedora box are installed from Flathub.
Flatpak seems to do a much better job on handling incremental updates than deltarpm in terms of bandwidth saving.

[cjcox]

So, in short, they don't know how to make them correctly. The idea that they are "wrong" or "useless" is just plain ignorant. Sheesh.

[Waethorn]

Isn't Microsoft just starting to implement delta updates in Windows now?

[mirmirmir]

So, in short, they don't know how to make them correctly. The idea that they are "wrong" or "useless" is just plain ignorant. Sheesh.

They can, but not with traditional Fedora. Try silverblue

[WannaBeOCer]

Never looked at the differences between package managers. I found eopkg in Solus to be fastest package manager which I believe uses deltas.

[avis]

They did it years ago as Fedora hasn't offered them by default for a long time already. It's actually a good decision except for the poor users of the metered Internet.

[avis]

Isn't Microsoft just starting to implement delta updates in Windows now?

Microsoft started distributing delta updates years ago.

[pegasus]

Google chrome & derivates should be the ones vocal about binary delta updates ... just imagine how much CO2 would be saved if the whole world would not need to download 100mb+ every other day when chrome decides it's outdated ...

[lowflyer]

So. Removing bad, ineffective or wrong code is usually a good thing.

They could have communicated it in better ways. Well, shit happens, everybody makes mistakes.

But: Why did they not consider fixing it? Bandwidth is the most precious resource for the IT crowd. There's never ever enough of it. Like in the real world, the persons wasting it sit in the warmest armchairs in the highest ivory towers.