23. Mar 2016 17:29 by 166...@gmail.com:
> 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.
I want to add IPFS as an option, not as the only way to download stuff. It
might be better for privacy-conscious people to use http over Tor.
> 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.
>
A company or any large install could run IPFS/Guix in a LAN, with a build
server, which would bring *huge* performance gains while being private.
