On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Piruthiviraj Natarajan
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> @ Nico Kadel-Garcia
> So you mean to say that delta updates is not a feature ?
> There are some people who would be willing to use it, if they are provided
> in the official repos.
> It saves a lot of resources. That's one of the reasons why presto plugin
> even exists in RHEL.
>
> I firmly believe that SL community would benefit the use of the plugin.

It's an unnecessary maintenance headache for software packagers who
favor distributed, publicly available mirrors. The benefits are, from
observation, basically lost in the noise of the bandwidth costs of yum
repository updates.