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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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