On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 14:44 +0100, Tillmann Rendel wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > [...] symlinks [...] > > > > Opinions? > > How would this interact with the absence of symlinks on Windows? Not a problem at all. The index tarballs are never unpacked to files on disk. We read the tar file directly using the tar package. Duncan