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Nix package manager on my Mac [1]. Deterministic builds, plays well with POSIX/UNIX, though fewer repo's available than Brew and others. [1]:https://news.ycom
by SkyMarshal 10y ago
Nix package manager on my Mac [1]. Deterministic builds, plays well with POSIX/UNIX, though fewer repo's available than Brew and others.
[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772686
- shpx 10y agoI tried switching to nix, but homebrew's command line argument "design" has spoiled me. With homebrew I'm usually able to guess command arguments, where as with every other package manager I have to google when I want to do something I haven't done before. For example, I want to search for a package name before installing. I'm guessing it's just "brew search pkg"... yup. Now what do I do with nix? Google says it's "nix -qa pkg", that totally makes sense, and I just love how I have to memorize some arcane letters. This is true for virtually every linux package manager I've tried (wtf is apt-cache? I can't remember pacman commands after using it for a year). Seriously, typing anything with a minus sign is slower than typing word, so what's even the point? At this point I won't (choose to) use a package manager that doesn't get this right.
- SkyMarshal 10y agoHaha, this is true, Nix's commandline is not exactly intuitive. I've been using apt, vim, and other similarly unintuitive stuff for a long time though so I just deal with it or script it, but totally understand anyone who prefers something more semantic.