yum-deltarpm (Was Thread Hijack - Our package management GUI tools need improvement)

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Am Sonntag, den 11.03.2007, 14:07 -0400 schrieb Warren Togami:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >> If you had efficiency threashold at >50% and size of ORIGINAL rpm
> >> larger than a certain size (say 1 meg? 10 megs? that would be up to
> >> whoever is doing the work and not me, a lurker), it could work.
> >>
> > Another metric could simply be absolute size of the difference.  If a
> > major openoffice.org-core update was only a 25% savings, that would
> > still be about 25MB of data. 
> > 
> 
> Err, yes, this is what I meant. =)
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
> 

Is this delta rpm work separate from what Mandrake or Suse (I forget
which) have been using for quite some time now?