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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Felipe Contreras |
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<felipe.contreras@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > |
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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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> > > |
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> > > I would like to hear your opinions on this matter. |
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> > |
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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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> |
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> Is there any interest in the Gentoo community to migrate to Nix? |
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This is not going to happen. "Migrating to Nix" means "rewriting the |
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distro from scratch". If you´re interested in a distro built on top |
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of Nix, you can try NixOS (which looks really nice IMO). |
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Regards, |
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Santiago |
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Santiago M. Mola |
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