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> Hey man, we couldn't figure out how to do software dependencies correctly, so we put a Linux distro inside your Linix distro. > Now you have fifty operating
by otabdeveloper4 3y ago
> Hey man, we couldn't figure out how to do software dependencies correctly, so we put a Linux distro inside your Linix distro.
> Now you have fifty operating systems to upgrade instead of one. Enjoy.
Using nix-copy-closure basically solved all my problems with one command.
- bandrami 3y agoI love Guix, I'm veeeerrry slowly pulling a resisting dev team by their hair into using it, but it also doesn't solve this problem. I don't know if Nix has a lint like Guix does, but when I see the actual number of different versions of a library I have sitting around on disk being run by something (by what? there are ways to find out but none of them are fun) my gray beard gets grayer.
- di4na 3y agoI mean the whole point of nix(and guix probably) is to accept that this is our reality and then built tools that make it tractable.