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Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:18:59 +0200
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Hello,

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> By hosting source packages on IPFS they become content addressable and
> should scale for downloads. It would also become a safe way of
> distributing data.=20
>
> https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

I would love such a thing to happen (that=E2=80=99s also why we had a GSoC =
on
using GNUnet=E2=80=99s file sharing capabilities a while back.)

The simplest thing to get started, as you wrote, would be to have an
HTTPS gateway to IPFS (which =E2=80=98guix substitute=E2=80=99 could readil=
y talk to
without any modification), though one would still need to populate IPFS
in the first place.

Ludo=E2=80=99.