Fedora Updates: whole packages vs patches
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Dec 9 18:02:33 UTC 2004
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:56:31PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> As you can see, on the 2nd option (Fedora's way), we're getting a 10MB package
> update for that 1K library replacement. Isn't that an overhead? Is it worth
> it?
It's a lot of overhead in terms of bandwidth, but, as you say, the
management overhead is significantly less. Bandwidth will continue to get
cheaper; the cost of time and effort to maintain systems will continue to
get more expensive.
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