Re: [Nix-dev] Design Patterns for Achieving what Nix is Advertized for

2015-11-27 Thread Martin Vahi
I just wanted to say thank You for the answers. As of 2015_11_28 it seems to me that one of the main contributions of the Nix project is a systematic and proper description of the problem that arises from the fact that different software components depend on each other and the fact that due to dat

[Nix-dev] Design Patterns for Achieving what Nix is Advertized for

2015-11-26 Thread Martin Vahi
In the light of the instability of the Nix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/718 I started to think, if it is possible to achieve the same goals without using the Nix. Could someone please comment, if there is something that the Nix offers and the solutions described here by me do not offer? C

[Nix-dev] nixpkgs Dependencies Availability Test

2015-11-19 Thread Martin Vahi
Is about 300MiB in size due to a clone of the https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs and resides at http://technology.softf1.com/nix/2015/2015_11_19_NixOS_nixpkgs_download_test_by_martin_vahi_at_softf1_com.tar.bz2 sha256: f05cf8bb85527a14f22adf0e2b3a7fa56f63461b7580620e4d54204c4d2db1ba The idea

[Nix-dev] Yet Another idea About the Wiki

2015-11-18 Thread Martin Vahi
I'm one of those people, who is new to Nix and is trying to learn it. What regards to the idea of killing the wiki, then I suggest that You just make a wiki that is editable only to the people, who have been with the project for a long time and know, what they are writing about. Once upon a time,

[Nix-dev] Failure to Install "hello"

2015-11-06 Thread Martin Vahi
Is the GitHub issue tracker in use or abandoned? I filed https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/515 about 6 months ago and nobody responded despite the fact that the issue should be quite important from Nix adoption point of view. So, the question is, where is the actual issue-tracker? Of cour

[Nix-dev] A Question About Nix Local Storage Path

2015-11-06 Thread Martin Vahi
Dear , It seems to me that the version 1.10 of Nix package manager does not allow the local repository of packages to be anywhere else than the /nix/ The configure script parameter --with-store-dir did not have any effect on the /etc/profile.d/nix.sh The question is, is it a bug

[Nix-dev] DHT as a "storage engine"?

2015-04-10 Thread Martin Vahi
Dear Nix package manager developers, I hope that I'm not asking a question that is answered at some documentation, but I was thinking that the Gnutella file-sharing network http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ might be an interesting "storage pool" for software packages, because supposedly t