Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

["Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Why not create a new build system with a state of the art programming
> >  > language, and an advanced DSL that actually other distributions could
> >  > use?
> >  >
> >  > I would like to hear your opinions on this matter.
> >
> >  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?
>

This is not going to happen. "Migrating to Nix" means "rewriting the
distro from scratch".  If you´re interested in a distro built on top
of Nix, you can try NixOS (which looks really nice IMO).

Regards,
Santiago

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