Package Manager Design: Content-Addressable Storage

Traditional package managers re-download identical tarballs for every local project workspace.

RahulChaube Runtime solves this using a Global Content-Addressable Storage Store. Downloaded package tarballs are stored centrally in ~/.rahulchaube/cache and hard-linked into workspace node_modules directories.

This results in:

• Sub-second dependency installation for cached packages.
• Significant disk space savings across local projects.
• Text-based lockfile auditing via bun.lock formats.