Compressed repodata

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hello Anders,

> Is there any way to get Smart to read directly from the compressed files
> (a la gzcat), without first having to uncompress them into a second file
> on disk ?
> 
> As far as I understand it is then parsed into an internal Smart cache
> anyway, and the package repository serves the files in the compressed
> format (.xml.gz)

Yes, but that'd mean paying the price of uncompression whenever the
file is parsed.  The price is CPU and time.

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