On 28 February 2016 at 15:07, Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/28/2016 02:59 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> On 28 February 2016 at 14:19, Domen Kožar <do...@dev.si> wrote: >>> For your reading pleasue >>> https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-projects#nix >> >> Seems we need to (1) package Subsurface and (2) implement recursive >> Nix(?) so that expressions can be fetched from upstream repos >> directly. > > Fetching expressions is something else than the author wants. > Third-party binary packages for nix can be provided, and we have those > one-click installs for that. Of course one would have to have some > package manager on the system already (Nix in this case), which is > considered a large disadvantage by them.
I guess we cannot please everyone. Oh, I didn't know that one-click installer packages could be made by third parties. I'll read the manpage now. > BTW, I tried their Chromium AppImages and without success, at least on > NixOS. So much for running on any Linux. > $ /some/path/Chromium-50.0.2644.0-x86_64.AppImage > -bash: /some/path/Chromium-50.0.2644.0-x86_64.AppImage: No such file or > directory I experienced similar thing with Pitivi "universal" package installer. It has everything bundled *except* the linker. (I wonder how 0install handles the linker.) Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev