On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:09:36 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> wrote: > ]] Sven Bartscher > > > I am a developer and regardless of the distribution I use, I often have > > a slow internet connection. So having to download possibly large > > documentation is a problem for me. "problem" may have been exaggerated. I should have written "inconvenient". > How do you keep up with unstable or testing, then? It's not that I can't download large files, but I think carefully before I install a larger package, because that would mean having to upgrade it regularly over a connection, which only allows a certain amount of traffic before it gets terribly slow. Having a slow/metered connection doesn't mean I can't keep up with testing, it just means the big upgrades take a long time whereas smaller packages mean less time/traffic used for upgrading packages. I'm not sure if merging -doc packages with their -dev packages would cause more benefit than inconvenience, as I have far greater problems with big packages than big Packages.gz files (as pabs said, pdiffs help with those). Regards Sven
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