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zomzilla

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Registered: 2011-06-12

Posts: 40

why arent package managers p2p?

this literally just crossed my mind:

linux is free right? and therefore making things like hosts for packages means there's a cost for bandwidth; and a high one for fast connections.

so why don't we have P2P package managers? in arches case it would probably work with existing servers as trackers; and having a security key (to check packages arent being tampered with) the peer2peer downloading would be quite fast: and with proper naming should mean that many versions are available at once!

what do you bunch think?

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: why arent package managers p2p?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115731

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: why arent package managers p2p?

zomzilla, please search the forums before posting. Closing.

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