Re: Request for Comments: updating RPMs using binary deltas.

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:50:11PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> If you require the original RPM to be around, you've lost already.
> Given the choice between longer update downloads and keeping CDs ever at
> the ready (or on the disk), users will choose the most convenient (i.e.
> longer downloads).  Okay, actually users will choose to do nothing at
> all, but you at least have a chance that they'll download an update.  An
> update that requires original CDs or 2G of disk wasted will not fly.

For rsync like protocols having something approximating the original is
sufficient