On Wednesday, May 04, 2016 11:00:23 Ericson, John wrote: > Glad to here you switched to NixOS! > > For your hydra checksum concerns see https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/pull/277 > --- in short it would be nice if we had "non-deterministic derivations" for > this, but in the Eelco has just added a `fetchGit` builtin in the meantime. > > I hope NixOS can somebody impose no policy and the user other than using > Nix, but rather just provide support code for every conceivable setup, so > please I hope you continue using it rather than rolling your own with Nix! > Interesting use-cases are exactly needed to pull NixOS in this direction.
I suspect that "rolling your own" would probably involve patching rather than reimplementing nixos and it's a good thing as patches can then hopefully be merged back, at least the majority of them.
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