** Description changed: Binary package hint: dpkg Dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) format is designed for taking backups on randomly accessible storage. Dar provides an index to individually compressed or directly stored files in archive. There is a very stable and featureful library available to manipulate and merge dar files. Using this format as data part of deb files has advantages: - Downloading only necessary parts of packages is possible, avoiding - necessity of delta files. We already have an md5sums list in header, map - of files in the archive can be merged with this list. + Downloading only necessary parts of packages is possible, avoiding + requirement of delta files. We already have an md5sums list in header, + map of files in the archive can be merged with this list. - Already compressed files will not be compressed again, this wastes time. And also we can get full performance of multicore cpus while compressing and extracting archives. - - How about working on this idea? + Already compressed files will not be compressed again, this wastes + time. And also we can get full performance of multicore cpus while + compressing and extracting archives. + + How about working on this idea?
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