[taeric]

I suspect this is the kind of advice that works for anyone, but would fail for everyone. That is, for most, it is a valid cost/benefit tradeoff to use the central option. Specifically, not just for them, but for everyone. If everyone was following this advice, it would likely start hitting scale/cost problems that would make running the mirrors of dubious value.

[schainks]

If you install packages on your linux infrastructure or docker images to provision anything, and those things are based on the “default” install, you are relying on the mirrors. That infrastructure is already “web scale”. It’s just a matter whether you make one image once and copy it thousands of times or if you actually spawn thousands of instances that talk to the mirrors.

Setting up your own mirrors for internal use isn’t overly difficult either, and it is definitely a trade-off as you pointed out.

However, it basically works for everyone, whether or not they are fully aware of it.

I have also run my own mirrors with minimal fuss. I haven’t had a business need to use GitHub packages, but I am glad it exists, as it is another tool to do a thing that needs doing in the right circumstances.

[taeric]

I meant for the sheer scale of how many are publishing to the mirrors more than the numbers that are pulling from them. But, fair that they are probably capable of more than I would expect, all told.