Excerpts from Matthew Sackman's message of Wed Apr 02 11:18:32 + 2014:
> But I'm not sure we're disagreeing, or actually talking about the same
> thing. So if I've misunderstood, please do say!
But in the end in which way does nix differ from rpms or homebrew etc?
Nix allows having multiple ver
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:03:13PM +, Marc Weber wrote:
> Please think the other way round:
> - most linux distributions (exceptions LFS I know about) want to install
> packages
>
> Some packages (such as gnome) have dependency information, but only
> encoded in "configure" scripts or RE
