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Re:Why does APT not use HTTPS? by DoctorOetker on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:54PM (#18963070)
that might work, and the larger packages might be sent as a sequence of parts, so that essentially all packages have the same size

other things to keep in mind is the dependency graph, some large packages might be rather unique in total filesize downloaded

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