On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
