Re: [arch-general] Adopt tar.xz for official repo packaging ?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Andrei Thorp<garoth@gmail.com> wrote:

Another possible issue is the question of whether this sort of compression works as well for the deltas system in pacman.

This only depends on the following trivial patch to xdelta3 (add xz support) : http://code.google.com/p/xdelta/issues/detail?id=87 deltas are useless if the compression used is not recognized (and thus without uncompress / recompress done automatically).