> There might be things to think about though: some packages have lots > of conffiles, and that could mean some extra disk space, which not > everyone will want to spend. Maybe make it optional.
Bzipping could help, and maybe even tarring them all to one file. As a quick test, I bzip-tarred my entire /etc. The resulting file was merely 1.4MB even though there are about 1300 'ii' or 'rc' packages on my system. - Jarno
