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by andrewchambers 249 days ago
Was playing around with the idea of p2p source hosting in package trees like nix and did a little weekend package prototype here of my own here:

https://github.com/magnet-linux/magnet-linux

Not really ready for prime time, but I think I have some interesting ideas there at least.

2 comments

You should focus on the p2p part of code and object distribution. While nix is not perfect, people are not going to learn and adopt yet another package manager.

A distributed git object cache is what is really needed at the moment.

I'm actually working on my own OS agnostic package collection + system management software, and I've found https://radicle.xyz great for this. All repos depended on by the official package collection t will be on the radicle network.