Package: apt Severity: wishlist Being stuck on a 57.6 dialup connection to the net, I find that keeping up with Sid requires hours of downloading every night. Just doing "apt-get update" requires a 3 meg download. In many cases, the updates to packages are minor, meaning the new package is 99% identical to the old one.
A good way to reduce the pain would be to enable apt to download diffs in place of whole package files when the user already has a package installed. It would also reduce the bandwidth demands on servers. -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/dpkg: Permission denied Kernel: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-k7 #1 Sat Sep 6 02:13:04 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
