[pacman-dev] delta support in libalpm

[Allan McRae]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> Is there delta information
> stored in the pacman DB? If so, the cleanup gets far more complicated?

Delta information is stored in the repo so removing them is not a simple 
delete.  As Xavier pointed out, my proposal for removing deltas was 
slightly more complicated but I am beginning to see the need for a 
script to clean the deltas up - and so I can use my more complicated 
removal system  :).  I think whether that script is part of repo-add, or 
repo-add calls it when adding/removing a delta depends on how 
complicated the script gets.

Anyway, a simple removal system based on number of deltas would be fine 
for now and more complicated stuff could be added later.

Allan