[MaxBarraclough]

If you have something substantive to say, then say it.

In what way does apt, say, not behave as I have described?

[dang]

Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. It's against the rules and evokes worse from others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[nailer]

I mentioned your repo knows everything you have installed. How is that not substantive?

There's not some kind of zero-knowledge k-anonymity (https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...) type feature. It simply doesn't exist. Apt doesn't use it, yum doesn't use it, pacman doesn't use it. They all know everything.

If you wanted more detail, you could have asked. Instead you said my comment had no substance.

Please read this very carefully: GFY.

[dang]

This sort of thing will get you banned here. Surely you know that by now. Please don't do it again, regardless of how provoked you feel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html