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This is all well and good, and certainly the more examples the better, but this will only work so long as one is on GNU/Linux and so long as the compile or link
by Annatar 8y ago
This is all well and good, and certainly the more examples the better, but this will only work so long as one is on GNU/Linux and so long as the compile or link stage don't bust.
And then, this whole complicated wrapper shatters.
- __david__ 8y agoThe Nix package manager also runs on macOS. Think of it as a cross platform Homebrew. Your other objections apply to all package managers, and not just Nix.
- Annatar 8y agoI'm principally against abstracting package management across platforms, because experience has taught me that the software management subsystem of the target platform is the best system for that platform. I see no point in this abstraction since I understand that the best packaging format is the native format, and I've no problem mastering the native format.
- __david__ 8y agoThen you should also be happy to know that NixOS is an OS where Nix packages are the native package system.
- Annatar 8y agoI couldn't care less about NixOS, as I'm a UNIX (IRIX, Solaris, illumos/SmartOS, HP-UX) guy and always will be. I run Solaris 10 and SmartOS on my infrastructure, before that I ran IRIX and HP-UX as well on it.