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Subject: Re: Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science
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Hello,

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

> It would be nice if big datasets could conceptually be handled in the
> same way while being stored elsewhere - a bit like git-annex does for
> git. And for parallel computing, we could have special build daemons.

Exactly.  I think we need a git-annex/git-lfs-like tool for the store.
(It could also be useful for things like secrets, which we don=E2=80=99t wa=
nt to
have in the store.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.