[pacman-dev] Fw: Pacman support for IPFS

[Robin Broda]

On 4/5/20 1:19 PM, @RubenKelevra wrote:
> I was wondering if there's interest from you or the team to implement
> native IPFS support in pacman?
> 
> The idea is, to extend the current database definition, by an
> additional field, which holds the Content-ID necessary to fetch a
> package from IPFS.
> 

If the database gets extended by an additional field for every new network layer people come up with,
where do we draw the line?

This needs a solution that does not require the database format to be altered to suit protocol-specific metadata.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruben
> 

-R