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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:02:33 +0200
From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild
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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.
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Felipe Contreras
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