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 1JTEd2-0008L1-6L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:02:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 826C0E0394; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6188CE0394 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 58so1711749wri.10 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:02:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=qo1JunHWupUCwK5ehp8V+7vpwvJ09LJm35brZAZYBPY=; b=u+9PVk7Einh8vFOmACSkodiZoZQm20jP9dTGsPTea3nbon4EIN4K1s3iiq/cMaLHIqrR0KI55cKWpg+8qoy9vWTjG1IZEzZGlsWeGZhXtUKNGkX2HSSPV8ae9lr9U0a7P9mwCbT2HpULRAyRvDQ2a+87Cpv1NfFtf8OdWUFOewE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pRp+ieumlhEE6IGh7nm/Xjkj0bZuiiLs0Zw6IoYL0OHnBBSQuZ6Qsxi9El7G6xWuAGGVretP4F64wS0LWhRyXxJELjSeP0tNbbpRWzttDx/yMqQaHMB/HPPkO/elZJ5ANr1/5pz0Wo0JPDQqTKCp3jPKpuaBaMouN56P6ejs644= Received: by 10.140.132.8 with SMTP id f8mr983333rvd.198.1203850953075; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.188.7 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:02:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <94a0d4530802240302v5eb3a6a4sb7dfa6a10784cef3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:02:33 +0200 From: "Felipe Contreras" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild In-Reply-To: <1203596946.3076.72.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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <94a0d4530802201240v19dde77vff199cb11ece0bbd@mail.gmail.com> <1203596946.3076.72.camel@localhost> X-Archives-Salt: f11287c2-c29d-4e7d-ad43-949f1e13c9ae X-Archives-Hash: 7e3b73878dff18a11364bb20ecf63e91 On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts 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