On Friday 03 July 2009 15:28:22 Nathan K. Bathory wrote: > read through the archived posts, i'm sure this was discussed already .. > iirc the issue was with implementing this in libarchive and some > licensing issues. pacman can already handle xz compressed packages (using libarchive). Support for makepkg will be available with pacman 3.3. (which does not mean we will use it though) -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
