>>>>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, Florian Schmaus wrote: > Network traffic, while also being cheap, may be more of an issue. > Currently, gentoo-latest.tar.xz is ~41 MiB. So on a conservative > approximation ::gentoo compresses to 1/10. So, the 10 Go-packages > cause 200 KiB of additional traffic. Even when using a low-bandwidth > connection, say 12 KiB/s, this only adds 17 extra seconds to the > transfer duration.
Manifest files contain binary hashes which don't compress to 1/10. A factor of 1/2 may be more realistic (since a byte is represented by two hex digits). Ulrich
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