[pacman-dev] [arch-dev-public] Filename search for Arch

[Xavier]

Alessio Bolognino wrote:
>
> I had the same idea, but I decided it wasn't a great one because to be useful it
> should be updated every time a new package is released, and IMHO that's not
> feasible (mainly for the user), considering its size.
>
> I still think the best implementation is to create a filelist with repo-add (or
> whatever script you use to generate the db) on the Arch server and then let is
> spread in the mirrors. As someone already wrote, xdelta would decrease
> dramatically the size of the filelist to download.
>
>

I don't see why it would need to be updated so often.
Even if it was updated once a week, I would still find it very useful.