tarballs which are also usually compressed (gz, bz2, 7z, xz) may have the benefit of being more efficient to download over bandwidth constraint or size constrai

tarballs which are also usually compressed (gz, bz2, 7z, xz) may have the benefit of being more efficient to download over bandwidth constraint or size constrained links. Also being 1 file, it's only one request and it works over zmodem or modern derivatives.