Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?

[Stefan Monnier]

>       I guess that the reason’s similar to the HTTPS case: the Emacs
>       compression support may be dependent on the presence of specific
>       libraries (as in: Zlib) on the target system.

Exactly (actually, linking with zlib is not needed since we can call
gunzip as an external program, but that still means that gzip needs to
be installed).

>       That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the
>       Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression
>       support;

Should yes.  See my latest attempt at

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26895894/get-apache-to-auto-decompress-a-file-but-only-if-needed


        Stefan