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

[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

[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

[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

[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