Article 695S4 Fedora Considers Dropping Delta RPMs

Fedora Considers Dropping Delta RPMs

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For many years now there has been delta RPM support built into Fedora to allow just downloading the binary difference between the currently installed RPM package and the updated version. While this made sense during the days of limited Internet connectivity/bandwidth, delta RPMs haven't proven useful in years and now Fedora Linux is considering removing this support...
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