Re: [Nix-dev] Language integration (Was: NiJS package manager)

2014-04-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
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 READMEs.

Re: [Nix-dev] Language integration (Was: NiJS package manager)

2014-04-02 Thread Marc Weber
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