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I found https://static.conf.archlinux.org/2020/archconf/talks/distri%3A%20researching%20fast%20Linux%20package%20management/6387_distri.mp4 https://static.conf.
by Ericson2314 6y ago
I found https://static.conf.archlinux.org/2020/archconf/talks/distri%3A%20researching%20fast%20Linux%20package%20management/6387_distri.mp4 https://static.conf.archlinux.org/2020/archconf/talks/distri...
Let me quote a thing starting at 26:49:
> The performance improvements distri provides, definitely some of them can apply to Nix. I think there are some low hanging fruit in Nix.
The other isuess do reflect some persistent rhetorical issues we've had with explaining Nix:
> There was little differentiation with Nix vs NixOS. (Some of his philosophical difference could be resolved by just using Nix.)
> There was no recognition that the "nix language part of Nix" is cleanly layered away from the layers that actually do the work of running jobs and moving files around, and can be replaced like Guix does.
So I do want our materials to highlight this so experimenters realize Nix is less of an all-in proposition than it sounds (if one is already willing to do the extra work of blazing their own trail).
- makebackupstoo 6y agoA few blog posts on "how to make your own guix!" would be really neat. I'm not as deep as I'd like to be, but roughly it's a simply a matter of outputting a derivation that `nix-daemon/nix-build` can handle, right?
- Ericson2314 6y agoI do want to add a section to the Nix manual that describes what it is (data model, key abstractions, etc.). Everything today is some variation on "how to use it".