>> This is really easy with one of the BSDs or a source-based Linux >> distro and much more unpleasant with a Linux-based binary package >> manager. > What are the caveats with a binary package manager (vs. > source-based)? It seems like it ought to work fine/as-well.
Well, I'm not Nix, but my usual answer to that is that binary packages are usually very dogmatic about where they have to be installed. This is fine if that matches up well with what Nix's scheme wants, but only rarely do binary packages' built-in paths match up well enough to deal well with unusual filesystem-layout hackery. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
