A meme styled like the “I receive / you receive” Meme format. At the top, it says “Starting full system upgrade…”. On the left, under “I receive,” it says “Total Download Size: 5982.67 MiB” and “Total Installed Size: 22816.87 MiB.” On the right, under “You receive,” it says “Net Upgrade Size: –699.29 MiB,” making fun of the fact that Arch updates often reduce used space even though multiple gigabytes may be downloaded
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, totally is. There's a reason nobody publishes diffs

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    openSUSE Leap does have differential package updates. Pretty sure, I once saw it on one of the Red-Hat-likes, too.

    But yeah, it makes most sense on slow-moving, versioned releases with corporate backing.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Ooh, got any links on how Leap does this? My searching isn't yielding much

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Had to search for a bit, too, but finally found the relevant keyword: Delta RPMs
    (Which also explains why it's a Red Hat / SUSE thing. 😅)

    Here's a decent article, which links to some more in-depth explanations: https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-get-started-delta-rpms/

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