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Thanks for the link. A good writeup on Nix and Snappy. I have a doubt here. Does Nix support deb packages? Snappy is said to be built on deb package management

Thanks for the link. A good writeup on Nix and Snappy. I have a doubt here. Does Nix support deb packages? Snappy is said to be built on deb package management and not a replacement. Can someone shed some light on this?

davexunit 11y ago
Nix has its own packaging format. Debs (and other formats) are insufficient for functional package management. Packages are code in Nix and Guix.
- dhj 11y ago
  Sounds like a security nightmare.
  - kryptiskt 11y ago
    How so? A Debian package can run arbitrary code as root on install. A Nix script can hardly be unsafer than that.
    - dhj 11y ago
      Ah. Good point. I expected dpkg to handle data blobs that were allowed to be moved into specific locations. I guess that would make post install configs impossible.