-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-09-03 03:10, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 01:32 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
One idea is that it would be possible to install a package while the next package is being downloaded, saving time. I'm unsure if this was implemented.
This just seems like unnecessary optimization. How often do people install concurrent packages? Installing a package is a pretty rare event in the use-case of a normal computer.
Updating is pretty normal (once a week, even daily, is normal), and it is the same operation internally. This optimization saves quite some time with some combinations network speed and cpu speed. For instance, if both take about a minute each (not that rare). For instance, if download speed is slow, it makes sense to use the default of downloading patches instead of the full packages, saving download size, at the cost of increasing install time a lot. The time for each fair sized package update goes up to minutes. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXnqMYACgkQja8UbcUWM1yNbQD+MGmkgsEjfmC++5LwJZuY6bS9 4ntmU8RR9CD7ZD5KCeoA/A3yqG8Ie2f+f79eNDUxILxmlz5zmGavv3dZakmQ1ZoS =zxXn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org