[arch-general] Presto for pacman?

[Maik Beckmann]

Xavier schrieb am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 um 09:47:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, David C.
>
> Rankin<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> > Excellent,
> >
> >        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.

I guess in the beginning there will be delta packages for the big ones only, 
like openoffice, to see how it works out.  If hassle is involved it should stay 
this way.