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> In order to ensure the quality for all packages, now you have to keep all versions anything depends on in check Spot on. This creates a burden of work imposs
by debiandev 7y ago
> In order to ensure the quality for all packages, now you have to keep all versions anything depends on in check
Spot on. This creates a burden of work impossible to handle for any distribution.
What really happens with the "everything goes" packaging (like throwing stuff in docker) is that nobody does security updates for most libraries.
- Nullabillity 7y agoWhat actually happens is that Nixpkgs usually bundles one version of $THING at a time, but as a user you can use, say, 19.09 as your primary system, but get your compiler from unstable because you need some cutting-edge feature, without worrying about dependency conflicts or unintentionally upgrading something else. Or maybe your FPGA programming software depends on some ancient version of QT from 2016, so you pull that Nixpkgs in for that package only.