Wesnoth.org offers XDelta downloads, could you please add support for them to the Wesnoth ebuild? (Perhaps you can "steal" some code from the KDE eclass?) As Wesnoth is getting bigger and bigger I think this is more than an enhancement, so I mark it "Normal". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
No. There's no good, clean way to handle that situation. Frankly, if you can't download 40M in a reasonable time, wesnoth updates are going to be the least of your worries.
Erm... What?! There are many DialUp users and Warzone itself doesn't need a cable connection to be played. I think telling me that a download of 40MB should not be a problem is a bit bigheaded in my eyes... The KDE ebuild maintainers got it to work also and their packages are even smaller.
regardless, xdelta is something to be handled by portage, not ebuilds search bugzilla for the status on this sort of feature
*** Bug 236532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***