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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:40 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: |
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> > The core of a distribution is the "packaging" system, and the core of |
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> > the packaging system is the building system, which has no reason not |
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> > to be distribution agnostic, and actually, packaging system agnostic. |
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> > Why not create a new build system with a state of the art programming |
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> > language, and an advanced DSL that actually other distributions could |
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> > use? |
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> > I would like to hear your opinions on this matter. |
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> Take a look at Nix. It's a distribution-agnostic package manager that |
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> uses a purely functional DSL for package specifications. |
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> http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html |
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That's exactly what I'm taking about :) I'll try it out. Thanks for |
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sharing the link. |
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Is there any interest in the Gentoo community to migrate to Nix? |
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Best regards. |
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Felipe Contreras |
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