[racket-dev] haskell's 'hell of a lot of libraries', planet

BTW, I said "repositories", roughly like they are used in Debian, for 
convenience of quick braindump, but this conflates several distinct 
concepts you might wish to have.

For example, you might want to have "authorities" (like "racket-core", 
individual roles of person/organization authors of contrib packages, 
one's own organization, etc.) that are the basis for identifying and 
authenticating packages, and then "repositories" are simply untrusted 
copies of packages in any of a number of places that bits may be 
represented.  Then, in this particular example, you have to make this 
setup, which I think implies some kind of signing, noncumbersome for 
programmers wishing to use or share packages.

I do not envy the person who undertakes some of the design problems 
involved in extending PLaneT to even greater heights. :)

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