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labawi | 2 years ago

I really like the storj concept - distributed storage, local encryption. Comes from tahoe-lafs I believe, except you don't need to find 10 buddies.

There is one main reason I don't use it besides web share: Despite being OSS, uplink-cli is not available in linux distribution packages, which

- makes me uneasy about stability/maturity of the platform (e.g. do you not provide packages because you don't have a stable API, and if so, should I really rely on you to keep my data?)

- it increases friction - either build from source or manually copy binaries; and you have need to do this on all your machines and servers; and it means no automatic updates

- binaries/packages without trusted update channels may be against corporate/personal policies, and you usually want your storage accessible on all/most of your computers

- if available in non-distribution package repositories (didn't see in quick-start) - it would still create trust issues

Have you considered getting your cli packages in distributions?

If I could just `apt install uplink-cli` or similar, I would already be using it.

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