On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel@seyman.fr> wrote:

* Elad Alfassa [11/08/2014 19:28] :

>
> I don't consider 7.3MB a lot, in these days
> when storage is relatively cheap.

The problem isn't so much storage but bandwidth. Some people have capped or
slow bandwidth and don't appreciate packages that are regularly rebuilt and
pushed as updates.

You have to update the metadata *somehow*. There are delta RPMs if you want to conserve bandwidth.

I'ld love some data so that we can better make up our minds. How many .desktop
files do we ship? How many of these do we want to advertise via gnome-software?
Etc...

Emmanuel

There are around 126 desktop files in RPM Fusion, some of which we'll probably want to blacklist (or are already blacklisted by the rules in createrepo_as).

Assuming an average of 10KB for each icon file this means 1.2MB of icons (the actual number will probably be smaller).

This is not much, even for people with limited bandwidth.

-Elad Alfassa.