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

[Andrei Thorp]

Excerpts from Xavier's message of Fri Jul 03 10:30:32 -0400 2009:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Andrei Thorp<garoth at 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).

Alright, awesome :)
-- 
Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)