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So far I have been experimenting with using nix package management on top of other OSes, how much extra do you feel like running NixOS adds? I've certainly run
by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 9y ago
So far I have been experimenting with using nix package management on top of other OSes, how much extra do you feel like running NixOS adds? I've certainly run into missing packages a fair bit, so far nothing beats the coverage of the AUR.
- xaduha 9y agoI'm mostly using it as a base, as a hypervisor of sorts for docker and libvirt. Anything else I need I can access with those. State of the system declaratively described in a few files, what's not to like? From limited experience I had with AUR - for not so rigorously maintained packages it's not much better than building from the source yourself.
- XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 9y agoMy main issue so far has been that the spec language isn't as simple as I hoped it would be and there are many packages missing or not up to date. The ability to try out a new package and safely downgrade has been exactly as it says on the tin. So far I have primarily used it as an add on to other OSes and put it in the PATH before everything else. That way if something is missing in the nix packages I'll fall back to the other OS. And yes the AUR has no standard of quality, but the coverage is greater than anything I have ever seen. Figuring out exactly what build system and assumptions a package might have made is something I only do once the AUR package has failed.