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Re:The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your... by pizzapill on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:48AM (#36489663)
I know you wanted to make a general point but in Arch you can just change PKGEXT='.pkg.tar' in /etc/makepkg.conf and the compression stage is skipped.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/makepkg

Tar would also be the answer to how to do fake compression (keeping files together and in order in one file) IF you can choose the "compression" library/tool.

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Re:The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your... by saghm on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @11:50PM (#36502058)
Interesting! I wasn't aware of that, so I'll check it out
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