Re: extensible metadata patch

[Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek collabora co uk>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Colin Walters wrote:

> While this would increase the cost of the initial download of a commit
> before we can even show them whether or not there's an OS upgrade, if
> they do choose to take it, it'd be a lot more efficient than fetching
> all of the individual metadata objects.

I think on the whole your current design wins over packed commits
(although of course this depends on the exact ostree usage pattern):

 - Fetching just the metadata is a big win, the user/system can decide
   if the download is one they want/can-afford to download right now.

 - Being able to work out that you only need certain objects (and how big
   they are) based on the metadata alone is even nicer.