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Some of the things you mention are not incompatible with package managers. Have you considered Nix? I actually agree with the parent post in terms of strongly
by nextos 6y ago
Some of the things you mention are not incompatible with package managers. Have you considered Nix?
I actually agree with the parent post in terms of strongly preferring package managers to other means of distributing software. I've always found Linux much easier to admin than other OSes simply because of package managers.
- kuratkull 6y agoWas really pumped after playing with Nix for a bit. But got bitten twice in the first day. I tried to run my work project using Nix. It needs Pythons python-prctl library - that doesn't work in Nix. So that's a dud. Next I try to use it as a Nim environment - Nim is unable to compile anything in Nix due to some missing (bundled) Glibc symbol. (Nim works nicely in my standard installation). The cool "export full container" thing mentioned in the tutorial failed for all, even the simplest cases. So I am kinda disillusioned by Nix.
- nextos 6y agoYou can always emulate FHS environments for things that are hard to turn into a Nix package without significant effort. Aside from that, Guix is an alternative implementation that might have what you need.