[X4U] panther 10.3.5

[Michael Winter]

On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:49 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> IMHO, this is unfortunate. We have returned to the pre-OS X days where
> systems were machine-dependant.

I don't believe that's the case. All its saying is that if you've made 
modifications to one system (say installed a security update) that 
wasn't done on another system, the two systems will necessarily have to 
download a different number of components -thus the downloads will be a 
different size.

Another factor is that if a 3rd party app modified a system file, 
Software Update may need to replace that file (a larger download) as 
opposed to simply modifying it.

So AFAIK once all machines are fully updated, they still have the same 
files on them. The "machine dependance" of the updates simply reflects 
machines that are not all starting from the same point, not a machine 
dependance in the OS installed.

-Mike