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The Nix package manager refers to itself as "The Purely Functional Package Manager", and that is exactly what it lets you do. "It provides atomic upgrades and
by mej10 12y ago
The Nix package manager refers to itself as "The Purely Functional Package Manager", and that is exactly what it lets you do.
"It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments."
http://nixos.org/nix/ http://nixos.org/nix/
- amelius 12y agoThis seems interesting. But I find it a bit unsatisfying that it can only be used as a package manager then. How about using this functional machinery, e.g., for a general build system? A "functional make" so to speak. And I bet there are plenty of other use cases.