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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#28659: bug#39575: guix time-machine fails when a tarball was
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:40:13 +0100
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To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 39575@debbugs.gnu.org, 28659@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 11:59, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
>> > On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 22:34, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrot=
e:
>
>> >> Also, one could argue that we=E2=80=99d steer users towards downloadi=
ng from our
>> >> server, which could be a privacy concern (probably not a strong argum=
ent
>> >> since one can easily change the substitute URLs.)
>> >
>> > I am not following the privacy concern.
>> > What do you mean?
>>
>> I mean that by default, someone who=E2=80=99s disabled substitutes (pres=
umably
>> out of security or privacy concerns) would find themself downloading
>> source code from ci.guix.gnu.org instead of various upstream sites.

[...]

> By privacy concern, do you mean that Guix could collect who downloads
> what; in a central fashion? Which is not the case when one downloads
> from several distributed upstream sources. Right?

Exactly.  But like I wrote above, I don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s a stro=
ng argument.

What remains is the issue with =E2=80=98content-addressed-item?=E2=80=99, t=
hen.

Ludo=E2=80=99.