> At that point you also need to make sure that you aren't downloading more in the process of applying a series of patches than you would need to download for a

> At that point you also need to make sure that you aren't downloading more in the process of applying a series of patches than you would need to download for a full update Well you wouldn't really need to but it would be a good sanity check on the client side. The common case could be that people are simply keeping up with the stable edge w/o patching binaries themselves out of band---that's the case with some desktop linux variants.