[arch-general] Presto for pacman?

Andrei Thorp garoth at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 17:03:40 EDT 2009


Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of Tue Jun 23 16:49:13 -0400 2009:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 08:34:53 am Andrei Thorp 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?
> > 
> > To be a bother, "Arch doesn't use RPMs".
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -AT
> > 
> 
> (smacks self -- I know Andrei!!)

Yeah, of course :). Like I said, just being a bother, haha.
-- 
Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)

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