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From: Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:49:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203882557.3076.239.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530802240302v5eb3a6a4sb7dfa6a10784cef3@mail.gmail.com>


On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 13:02 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> >  Take a look at Nix. It's a distribution-agnostic package manager that
> >  uses a purely functional DSL for package specifications.
> >  http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html
> 
> That's exactly what I'm taking about :) I'll try it out. Thanks for
> sharing the link.
> 
> Is there any interest in the Gentoo community to migrate to Nix?

It's quite a radical departure and requires more accurate information
about packages. We'll see how the NixOS people get on.

-- 
Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-24 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 20:40 [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild Felipe Contreras
2008-02-21 12:29 ` Duncan Coutts
2008-02-24 11:02   ` Felipe Contreras
2008-02-24 19:43     ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-02-25 10:59       ` Jakub Moc
2008-02-25 11:24         ` Sebastian Volke
2008-02-24 19:49     ` Duncan Coutts [this message]
2008-02-23 20:45 ` Alec Warner
2008-02-23 20:46   ` Alec Warner
2008-02-24 11:53   ` Felipe Contreras
2008-02-24 18:50     ` Luis Francisco Araujo
2008-02-24 23:32     ` Alec Warner
2008-02-25  6:43     ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long

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