[pacman-dev] xdelta status

[Xavier]

Nathan Jones wrote:
> Today I read a post[1] by Xavier about how deltas cannot currently be
> used. As I say in the thread, I will work on adding delta creation
> support to repo-add in the next week.
>
> Is there anything else that needs to be changed before this can actually
> be used?
>
> [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43426
>

Another issue is that dbscripts (the database scripts used for core / 
extra repos) don't use repo-add, even if there is a plan to do that.
(see http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-January/010999.html)

But community already uses repo-add, so maybe once support is added to 
repo-add, it would be easy to get xdelta in community?