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Well, Nix mostly solves that issue so well due to a continuous massive offering of blood and sweat though, let's not kid ourselves. It's a significant amount of
by aseipp 3y ago
Well, Nix mostly solves that issue so well due to a continuous massive offering of blood and sweat though, let's not kid ourselves. It's a significant amount of work to package arbitrary software because arbitrary software does weird and bizarre things.
But IMO the fundamental principles underlying the design are sound and granular compared to most of the alternatives, though, that's for sure.
- whateveracct 3y agoLuckily (at least for me) Nix makes building and packaging arbitrary software fun. There's something to hacking derivations together, reading documentation, seeing it build and work. At this point, there isn't a C project I can't package in fewer than a handful of sittings. Even when patches are involved!