[gentoo-dev] Gnunet and Gentoo

[Vik Olliver <vik@olliver.family.gen.nz>]

Now that Gnunet has settled down:

http://gecko.cs.purdue.edu/gnet/

Might it be possible to use Gnunet to distribute the source tarballs
among Gentoo installations? 

As most users will tend to have their tarballs stored locally and are
very likely to have a network connection, Gentoo is an ideal
distribution for P2P updating - provided that some trusted GPG signature
(or MD5 at a pinch) can be used to verify the integrity of the source.

Implementing this system frees Gentoo and all its applications from the
burden and expense of having to maintain a central source repository
with high bandwidth, allowing the distribution to grow freely at its own
pace. Fixes will percolate through automatically, software that is
banned in backward parts of the world will come through via untraceable
routes, and the caching will ensure that the file requests are
distributed evenly.

I regret that I am already fully comitted (possibly over-comitted) to
charitable projects already, but I believe this idea should be aired to
those willing and able to implement it.

Regards,

Vik Olliver
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