[pacman-dev] Removing deltas from repos - Was: Allow package to display a brief message before sync install

[Allan McRae]

Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 23:14 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae:
>   
>> repo-remove... but I am assuming you mean some automated tool to remove 
>> "useless" deltas?  Not yet, and I doubt there will be until someone 
>> starts using deltas in a repo and finds the need to code one.
>>     
>
> Well, i rise my hand then and look into it as we use deltas quite
> heavily lately here.
>   

That would be great.  From memory, pacman does not use a chain of deltas 
if the total download is greater than 90% of just downloading the full 
package.  That is probably a good criteria to use to in order to decide 
which deltas to remove.

Allan