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From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:02:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530802240302v5eb3a6a4sb7dfa6a10784cef3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203596946.3076.72.camel@localhost>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:40 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>  > The core of a distribution is the "packaging" system, and the core of
>  > the packaging system is the building system, which has no reason not
>  > to be distribution agnostic, and actually, packaging system agnostic.
>  >
>  > 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?

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
-- 
gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list



  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-24 11:02 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 [this message]
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
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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