On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:33:25PM +0100, Rémi Birot-Delrue wrote: > GNUnet and IPFS seem to share some concepts (immutability, peer > identity/namespace) but IPFS is less mature: for instance, there’s a > priori no way to search a file. You might hit the same difficulties I’ve > encountred: unstable API, bugs, inaccurate or inexisting > documentation. Anyway, IPFS’s hyperlinked nature could be great to > handle multiple versions of a package.
Another issue with IPFS is that it's not anonymous. I've spent a few times trying to get it to work with Tor but it absolutely hates proxies, and putting strain on the Tor network like that is generally a bad idea. With such a system like this, people, organizations or companies using Guix could have their Guix version (thus all of the packages, patches, etc) found by analyzing a few substitutes being fetched over the network, much worse than traditional distros. > Work on this matter can only enrich our/my comprehension of the subject, > please feel free to contact me for any question :) > -- > Rémi Jookia.
