Anyone tried Nix?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:53:03PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> "A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple
> distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on
> different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red
> Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers. Unlike
> existing package managers, Nix allows different versions of software to live
> side by side, and permits sane rollbacks of software upgrades. Nix is a useful
> system administration tool for heterogeneous environments and developers who
> write software supported on different libraries, compilers, or interpreters."

If it installs software on the machine, and doesn't directly do it using
the package manager of the system, then it IS interfering with the
package manager of the system.

I also highly doubt that they can do sane rollbacks of upgrades in many
cases.

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