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
    5·
    2 hours 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?

    • poke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 hour 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.

    • Maestro@fedia.io
      5·
      2 hours ago

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