Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On 12/10/05, Snaury <snaury at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/10/05, Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's the real problem - having all language packs inside one single
> > deb would imply that all languages would be installed at once. I don't think
> > that we'll find an easy way around this one.
>
>
> How about creating a special kind of a repository in 7z format for
> language packs only (or maybe for other packages that need it), that
> contains uncompressed .debs inside? That way you could propably achieve the
> same size (because 7-zip uses solid mode by default), and a way to install
> certain language packs (just install needed ones to a temp directory).
>

That's the easy part: a loop mount, the same way ISOs can be mounted, but
for 7z files. The real problem is that having packages inside packages would
involve changing the way the packaging system works. Currently it just
fetches independent files from the repository and install them. Having
packages inside packages (no matter how cleverly you retrieve the
sub-packages from inside the others) involve changing a lot of stuff. I'm
not sure if it's worth the hassle.

(The best approximation that could be made is that of a compressed
repository - but again, I don't think that there would be much to gain from
this approach. I may be wrong of course).

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Carlos Ribeiro
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