Recently, there were a couple of feature requests to make the AUR package search more powerful. While I do not plan on adding more patterns or regular expressions to the RPC interface itself, my idea is that more tools should be using the package name list. However, there seem to be two issues with that: 1. The list is outdated. Right now, it is updated every two hours. I do not think there is a good reason for those long intervals. Reducing it to, say, ten minutes should be totally fine. Or maybe even trigger list generation whenever a package is created or deleted (which is clearly a lot more work, though). Thoughts? 2. Transferring the whole package name list is inefficient. Even if we use gzip compression here, the whole list is several hundreds of kilobytes large. We need to retransfer the full list, even if only a single package is added. Maybe we can do better than pacman here. My idea is to add zsync support to the lists such that only relevant parts are downloaded (for those who do not know: zsync is like rsync but it works via HTTP as well and does not require any special software on the server side). I did not experiment with how much bandwidth we can actually save using this yet. Maybe the block size needs to be adjusted. Are there any opinions or other suggestions on this topic? Regards, Lukas