Many times I have seen the note telling users not to update their repositories too often (i.e more than once a day) because that will put a stress too large for the servers. Also I understand that it takes monstrous machines for such repositories.
I am wondering if there is something like BitTorrent for package management? Or if there isn't, is it feasible to have such a system?
(I'm thinking about a system where each user keeps the packages that they have and serve it in the same fashion as BitTorrent.)
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Indeed it's possible and of course it exists, but all of the existing projects are still just experiments.
I found two interesting papers:
So yes, it's possible and it's indeed a really interesting subject.