DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: GZip Compressed .dsl



Browser like firefox has the ability to download gzipped compressed  html or txt files. this makes downloading (opening) files faster. because it is easier to open compressed files in memory than to wait and download the same uncompressed file.

What if mydsl could download gzipped files like file.dsl.gz/.uci and decompresses them on the target system leaving the file as file.dsl/.uci and then install them. Will this work faster? or is it just plain stupid? Or maybe the mydsl files are already compressed?? Any comments are mostly welcomed.
They are already compressed using gzip.
oh! that was what i thought... the keyboard just typed by itself. hehehe :D  thanks for the reply
That said, might it not be a good idea to use bzip2 to compress them rather than gzip?  Take gnu-utils.dsl.  If you use gunzip and then compress it using

bzip2 --best gnu-utils.tar

you can see that the difference is about 400K or 4.3%

-rw-rw-r--    1 dsl      staff     9483892 Sep 10 18:20 gnu-utils.dsl
-rw-rw-r--    1 dsl      staff     9074571 Sep 10 18:28 gnu-utils.tar.bz2

bzip2 is already there in dsl.  Why can't we use that?
I'd thought about that....bz2 is definitely greater compression.
However, the process is a LOT slower.  Piles and piles and piles slower than gz.
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