1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Bit Shift (bitshift) http://rainbowdash.net/bitshift http://rainbowdash.net/notice/1822957 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/7875" class="url" title="Omni"><span class="fn nickname">omni</span></a></span> Of course, it would take more space, since the latest full package has to be kept, and deltas from [i]n[/i] old versions to the latest package also have to be kept (where [i]n[/i] is adjusted to the mirror-owner's preference, and users more than [i]n[/i] versions back do a full download this time). So maybe their main priority is keeping space usage low on the mirrors? I still think the time savings would be worth it, but I think I can see why it's not happened. (Also, extending pacman to support delta updates may not be trivial, though I don't know about that.)