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In-Reply-To: <87pnid3qdh.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of
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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any plan to support parallel downloads?  Currently downloads are a
> bottleneck for `guix install / upgrade`, parallel downloads could reduce
> the operation duration by an order of magnitude.

On a related note, would getting guix to download substitutes via IPFS
mean that one could update one's system faster? 

Thanks,

Joshua

>
> Thoughts?

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