From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTMtp-0006JW-PN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:52:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B930BE052E; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mk-filter-4-a-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-filter-4-a-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.100.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B45E052E for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:52:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Trace: 670314524/mk-filter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2B/$THROTTLED-DYNAMIC/CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/79.74.148.155 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 79.74.148.155 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: dcoutts@gentoo.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAIVZwUdPSpSb/2dsb2JhbAAIqXo Received: from 79-74-148-155.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO [192.168.0.100]) ([79.74.148.155]) by smtp.tiscali-business.co.uk with ESMTP; 24 Feb 2008 19:49:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild From: Duncan Coutts To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530802240302v5eb3a6a4sb7dfa6a10784cef3@mail.gmail.com> References: <94a0d4530802201240v19dde77vff199cb11ece0bbd@mail.gmail.com> <1203596946.3076.72.camel@localhost> <94a0d4530802240302v5eb3a6a4sb7dfa6a10784cef3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:49:17 +0000 Message-Id: <1203882557.3076.239.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1a8bd7e9-02c4-42ea-a480-37b92a0005a3 X-Archives-Hash: a3285c17b042aaec9355defb675815cc 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) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list