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		encom 76 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Package managers keep using Git as a database, it ... I quite like Gentoo's rsync based package manager. I believe they've used that since the beginning. It works well.

MarsIronPI 76 days ago [–]

To be clear though, the rsync trees come from a central Git repo (though it's not hosted on GitHub). And syncing from Git actually makes syncing faster.

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