Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Phillip Susi]

Absolutely it is worth it.  When installing from a cdrom, the cpu is 
vastly faster than the drive so any data you can avoid having to read 
will speed up the install, even if it takes more cpu time to do it.

I wonder though, if you could combine all of the packages that normally 
are installed and 7zip them in one unit, rather than each package 
individually?  That should give even better compression.

Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> 8 Mb out of 44 Mb, which makes 17.8 % less, at the same time
> de(?)compression time seams to have increased 2.36 times. The
> compression is there, but is the time increase worth it?
> 
> Could also do the benchmark with lzop - compressor optimised for
> speed. Also, could you pick another letter - "a" looks to be quite
> poisoned by aspell-* packages that are mostly text.
>