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> We're not particularly interested in NixOS or Guix Why not? Isn't it a competing solution?
by ParetoOptimal 3y ago
> We're not particularly interested in NixOS or Guix
Why not? Isn't it a competing solution?
- NoahKAndrews 3y agoComplexity, I'd imagine
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoYeah, you are probably right. I'd argue Nix merely surfaces the inherently complex nightmare we've all been hiding from though. From that view it's likely I'd view alpine as pretending to be simple while shuffling complexity elsewhere. I'm not confident enough to say that is the case with alpine though.
- LoganDark 3y ago> pretending to be simple while shuffling complexity elsewhere We don't particularly care if, say, `lbu` is a 10,000 line bash script, if it works. Actually, we've tinkered around with KISS Linux before, where a single bash script is responsible for being the entire package manager and rebuilding the entire operating system live. We were unable to get Nvidia working on it even before the motherboard swap though :)
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoEven though I disagree, thanks to all of you for sharing your experiences!
- LoganDark 3y agoNo, it's absolutely not, it solves a completely different problem (declarative system configuration), where Alpine is not declarative.