Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: > Hello, Hello, >> Nix is a purely functional package manager. It allows multiple >> versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that >> dependency specifications are complete, supports atomic >> upgrades and rollbacks, allows non-root users to install software, >> and has many other features. > > The claims that I think are valuable are: > - *all* dependencies of a package are automatically found by Nix, > no exceptions, Hmm... Nix probably use libastral, doesn't it? Even for C/C++ programs there is no way to 100% automatically determine entire list of runtime libraries/tools needed for some particular program (consider runtime library opening and all non-library dependencies). > - updates and rollbacks are atomic, an update can never break > your system. This cannot be true. Consider package maintainer scripts. And, for example. purge of config files cannot be reverted. > What do you think of adopting Nix as a package management > tool for Debian? I would like to accentuate that I seek > an informative discussion, not a holy war. Nix, as mentioned on its homepage, installs some info in /nix (hey, FHS) and keeping all versions of packages/libraries -> system bloat and a hell for security team. It has nothing to do with our apt infrastructure, it doesn't understand it and invented its own wheel. I think no way for Nix in Debian. We have excellent dpkg, we have not-so-excellent, but rather good apt, and significant amount of Debian users choose Debian just only because of apt. IMO. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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