Dear tofutim,
Are you saying that I can patch both compressed (Web) and uncompressed with the same patch?
What do you mean with both compressed (Web) and uncompressed? are you referring to two distinct projects?
If it is the same project, sure you can.
Obviously, I am supposing that you are not patching files that could be conditionally installed via WEB MEDIA BLOCK.
Is the cache function on the user side or developer side?
It is an InstallAware project setting ... (... if I haven't missed your question).
Regards