Why does Bazaar download so much data for a small change?

[Nicholas Allen]

> In fairness, I wouldn't really expect that the first project that
> someone would checkout with a freshly installed bzr package would be the
> bzr sources - most people are usually fairly high up the sophistication
> curve before they need to checkout the sources to their version control
> tool.
I guess I'm not a typical user. I installed Bazaar from sources and then 
pulled the latest version and installed that. I figured the automatic 
testing done means that the trunk should still be stable but would 
contain more features and bug fixes. Also I think people may check what 
Bazaar uses as its format and think that is some kind of recommendation 
on what to use.

But certainly launchpad will most likely be source for the first branch 
that most people download and pull from. I don't know what the default 
there is but it could give Bazaar a bad image if it's using an old and 
slow format.

Nick