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>* The nixstore treats a filesystem as an object store. That's a weird thing to list as a shortcoming, since that's the main innovation of Nix. ("package manag
by catern 5y ago
>* The nixstore treats a filesystem as an object store.
That's a weird thing to list as a shortcoming, since that's the main innovation of Nix. ("package management as memory management" as the paper and thesis said)
- nwmcsween 5y agoBecause you can encode the same information within the files and some dirs while keeping the benefits of a filesystem, heck you could encode what nix uses sqlite for using symlinks, files and dirs
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