At 21:54 18/11/2003 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >Many freebsd users (me for one) are still living on a modem,
where even one bump of 1.5 meg is a significant issue...
Remember that the issue we're talking about is security updates, not full system upgrades. "Everyone" would want the security updates, even if they're on a slow link.
If people rebuild from source, the binary sizes don't affect the update time. If people use FreeBSD Update -- which is the only binary security update tool around -- then they're using binary patches, and that 1.5MB is actually closer to 10 kb.
The bandwidth usage associated with updating a system is only a concern for people who roll their own binary update mechanism -- and those people aren't likely to be doing everything over a modem.
Colin Percival
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