Hi! Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> skribis:
> Given that nix would support a "last-resort mirror" and given we could > convince some instution (e.g. archive.org) to provide such a mirror, the > world would be always able to exactly reproduce software installations > and we could show our / somebody's grandchildren how we kept ourselves > entertained. Given a mirror of every source tarball, you’d still need a working bootloader and kernel (or full NixOS). In practice you also need to take Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS of the same date, because they are largely interdependent. But yes, Nix is definitely forward for software archeology. Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
