Open source package repositories face sustainability crisis
www.theregister.com
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks
  • earthworm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    4 days ago

    a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next

    Why would anyone ever need to do this?

    • Maestro@fedia.io
      22·
      4 days ago

      They don’t design a system that does so intentionally. It’s equal parts ignorance, automation and cluelessness

    • deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      Laziness? Why designate storage for a downloaded repository when you can just use the blazing fast company network to make someone else’s storage your storage? Systemically it’s fucked up, but individually it kinda makes sense.

    • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Maybe they’re building containers every day? Idk. Can’t think of how that’d blow up into thousands without some sort of VM or containerization dependency.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      The explanation is earlier in the quote you just copied. They’re using it as a CDN