> > > Just a thought - quick check: > > 442132 Apr 13 21:46 > ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages.bz2 > 589652 Apr 13 21:45 > ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz > > > Allowing .bz2 here will save 25% of the time to get them by FTP ! > If noone steps to implement this in dinstall and apt, I may even get > the source and do it myself !! >
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.
