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Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files



On Tue, 13 Apr, 1999, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2.  On less than midrange
> pentiums bzip2 is quite slow.  100k is not much of a diff, even over
> my modem.

The suggestion was not to remove Packages.gz but to add Packages.bz2, if you
want Packages.gz you can carry on using it, and those who want Packages.bz2
can change to it. Everyone is happy (except it will use a teeny bit more disk
space.)

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