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> Unless you configure it to ignore bloat then you won't avoid this

For the aim of parsing all Perl&POD source locally I'd need to pull all text and ignore binaries and other "bloat" (to be defined) to save disc space.

But this won't be faster in net-load, since AFAIK does filtering happen after downloading the full dist's tgz. °

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

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°) well probably avoiding extracting certain files from the tgz might speed up things a little tho.

In reply to Re^6: grepping CPAN? by LanX
in thread grepping CPAN? by LanX

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