Hi, On 06/17/2016 08:01 PM, Yui Hirasawa wrote:
>> True, of course. But, there is a class of software projects which will >> likely never be "packaged" by package managers - namely, other package >> managers. Nix falls into this class, along with, for example, NPM, >> Brew, Oh-My-Zsh, and others. > > What reason would there to not package other package managers? IIRC, Debian won't package Nix because it violates the FHS (by requiring a /nix directory). > There is no reason to not package your package manager other than > laziness and desire to not have adoption. Especially Nix and Guix are > package managers that would make a lot of sense to package for other > distributions to make the adoption easier. We do have Fedora / Ubuntu / Debian packages, but they're no longer advertised because they're not well tested. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
