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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
November 28, 2010 14:03
Subject:
Re: Using a better compression than .gz for one's CPAN modules
Message ID:
20101128220337.GK26958@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> [2010-11-28 22:45]:
> On the other hand, if someone wants to recompress all of CPAN
> into XYZ compression scheme and release their own client that
> deals with it (or patch cpanm or whatever), then they can have
> the benefits (and any resulting hassles) themselves.

And note that distributions which ship packages for CPAN modules
are effectively already doing exactly that.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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