[Piuparts-devel] Bug#708241: Bug#708241: should not default to use pdiffs

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-05-14 14:20, Holger Levsen wrote:
> <weasel> you're using pdiffs?
> <h01ger> could be
> <h01ger> we shouldnt
> <weasel> I'm seeing rreds in top
> <h01ger> "btw", in sid it doesnt seem to work anymore to just set 
> APT::Acquire::PDiffs "false"; - is still^wagain have pdiffs in my chroots here 
> too
> <h01ger> "rgrep -i pdiff *" in the source tree reveals no hit. and as the 
> default is to use pdiffs, i assume we do. will file a wishlist bug for 
> defaulting to not to (as piuparts users will/should have reasoable bandwidth 
> or a proxy/mirror anyway)
> 
> (and assembling pdiffs uses quite a lot of cpu for the benefit of using less 
> bandwidth...)

Is there any need to have this configurable?
Can't we just turn it off completely? (that would be a single added line)
And make it configurable if someone complains?


Andreas