Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

[Richard Stallman]

    > In effect, this would be a cache of binaries, used to
    > optimize installation.  Certain trusted people could be
    > allowed to feed binaries up to the cache, when they install
    > a package.  Cached binaries that go unused for a certain period
    > of time could be deleted.

    Unless I misunderstood something, that s how Nix & Guix work.

That's good.  I didn't know.

    At nixos.org, the cache of binaries is regularly garbage-collected, such
    that only current binaries are kept.

I suggest judging binaries based on how often they are downloaded per
week, perhaps divided by the size of each library.  That would use
efficiently whatever amount of space is allocated for the cache.

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