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strogonoff on July 22, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google tries internet air-gap for some staff PCs

I wonder if more package management tools should adopt the zero-install approach of Yarn Berry. You don’t even need a mirror: everything is right there in the repository. Want to update a dependency? That’s a commit, thank you very much.

codetrotter on July 22, 2023 [–]

I imagine parent commenter meant OS-level packages.

I.e. things like installing and updating clang, cmake, etc

danpalmer on July 22, 2023 | [–]

Yep. It's one of the few things I'm doing on my workstation that ostensibly needs the internet, except because of the mirror it also doesn't.

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