[jefozabuss]

I wonder what is the tarball size difference on average if you'd for example download everything in one tarball (full package list) instead of 1-by-1 as the gzip compression would work way better in that case.

Also for bigger companies this is not really a "big" problem as they usually have in-house proxies (as you cannot rely on a 3rd party repository in CI/CD for multiple reasons (security, audit, speed, etc)).

[Dylan16807]

You might save a little bit by putting similar very small files next to each other in the same tarball, but in general I would not expect significant improvements. Gzip can only compress repetitions that are within 32KB of each other.