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Great article! You know, I would love to see an "Alpnix" in the future -- all of Alpine's speed and lightness, all of NixOS's hermetic and reproducible build c

• MuffinFlavored 4y ago
  > NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager Can the Nix package manager not be added to Alpine? I guess you'd have to replace apk?
  • yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
    I think they're actually asking for the other way around; they want nixpkgs packages that are as light on disk space as alpine, which probably needs some config tweaks (which nix lends itself to) and possibly using musl (which I think you just do with an overlay? I know it's doable, but I'm not familiar)
• qbasic_forever 4y ago
  apko is close to that, it's a tool to build fully reproducible Alpine Linux containers from a declarative YAML description: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko