hi, > Actually, being a Debian user, I'm starting to understand that the basic > assumption behind source deployment systems (Gentoo, *BSD, NixOS, etc.) > is that users really have *plenty* of disk space: if you have enough > space to install all the tools need at compilation-time, you surely have > enough space to retain (potentially useless) headers, libs, etc. > (Gentoo allows users to pass configure `--without-' flags, which > slightly mitigates this problem.)
Hm. I don't know if I would like to see Nix and NixOS as a "source deployment system". The channels with precompiled packages are blazingly fast, of course. In Nix it's not about source vs. binary, it's about dependencies, derivations, and so on :-) Yes, if you do have a lot of variants of programs/libs then you can count on needing some diskspace. However, the strict dependency system can also work in favour by not including any more than you actually need. In that case having a system like Nix could actually mean using *less* diskspace than other distros. armijn -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.uulug.nl/ | UULug: Utrecht Linux Users Group --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
