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0 pointsmasklinn10y ago0 comments

> Arch and Debian contributors have tried a good approach for package management..

> 0: p2pacman - Bittorrent powered pacman wrapper

> 1: pacman & torrent, feasible?

> 2: DebTorrent

That's about distributing packages via p2p. The problematic repository doesn't store any package data, it stores package metadata (it's the cocoapods index if you will).

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mitchtbaum10y ago

>~ package metadata, not package data

metadata != data ??

masklinnOP10y ago

You got it.

mitchtbaum10y ago

I see metadata very much as "regular" data (in terms of needs and tooling); practically speaking, even from the same-ish data set. Simply put, it just looks different.. above the surface.

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0 pointsmasklinn10y ago0 comments

> Arch and Debian contributors have tried a good approach for package management..

> 0: p2pacman - Bittorrent powered pacman wrapper

> 1: pacman & torrent, feasible?

> 2: DebTorrent

That's about distributing packages via p2p. The problematic repository doesn't store any package data, it stores package metadata (it's the cocoapods index if you will).

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mitchtbaum10y ago

>~ package metadata, not package data

metadata != data ??

masklinnOP10y ago

You got it.

mitchtbaum10y ago

I see metadata very much as "regular" data (in terms of needs and tooling); practically speaking, even from the same-ish data set. Simply put, it just looks different.. above the surface.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse