Just doing an update, and I noticed this: Targets: coreutils-6.10-1 bash-3.2.033-2 cairo-1.4.14-1 gtk2-2.12.7-1 gcc-libs-4.2.3-3 mpfr-2.3.1-1 gcc-4.2.3-1 mesa-7.0.3rc1-1 acroread-8.1.2-1 automake-1.10.1-2 kernel26-2.6.24-2 catalyst-8.01-3 curl-7.18.0-1 devtools-0.5-1 dhcpcd-3.2.1-1 e2fsprogs-1.40.5-1 faac-1.26-1 filesystem-2007.11-6 fakeroot-1.9.2-1 findutils-4.2.32-1 flex-2.5.33-4 librsvg-2.20.0-1 libxmu-1.0.4-1 gimp-2.4.4-1 git-1.5.4-1 gpgme-1.1.6-1 groff-1.19.2-4 kde-common-3.5.8-3 lm_sensors-3.0.1-1 kdebase-3.5.8-3 lftp-3.6.3-1 libgnomecups-0.2.3-1 libxml2-2.6.31-1 libgnomeprint-2.18.3-1 libgnomeprintui-2.18.2-1 libidl2-0.8.10-1 libmysqlclient-5.0.51-2 libtasn1-1.3-1 libtool-1.5.26-1 lua-5.1.3-1 lvm2-2.02.33-1 man-1.6f-2 man-pages-2.77-1 mysql-clients-5.0.51-3 nasm-2.01-1 orbit2-2.14.12-1 pcre-7.6-2 php-5.2.5-3 pil-1.1.6-4 postgresql-libs-8.3.0-1 sdl_mixer-1.2.8-2 shared-mime-info-0.23-1 snownews-1.5.8-1 spamassassin-3.2.4-2 sqlite3-3.5.5-1 sudo-1.6.9p12-1 tk-8.5.0-2 wget-1.11-1 which-2.19-2 xfsprogs-2.9.5-1 xine-lib-1.1.10-1 xorg-server-1.4.0.90-6 Total Download Size: 194.03 MB Total Installed Size: 194.39 MB Does gzip compression really give us so little as to only save 0.3 MB over uncompressed for so many packages? I figured the difference would be a bit more - does it suck for compressing binary data? Should we consider moving to a different, more compressed archive format? Or am I just making a mountain out of a molehill here? -- Travis