[arch-general] Presto for pacman?

[Xavier]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David C.
Rankin<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
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> Excellent,
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>        Two thoughts. (1) delta rpms are great for download size, but computationally expensive on the client side for reinstalls or multiple machine updates, so (2) if possible, can an option be retained to enable/disable use of deltarpms for folks that would like to have full packages?
>

I don't know about presto, but normally the delta you download allow
you to build the final package, which you can keep locally. So
reinstalling is not a problem.
That's the case with pacman at least. And you can also enable/disable
use of deltas.