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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by davexunit on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:43AM (#10278063)
Nix has its own packaging format. Debs (and other formats) are insufficient for functional package management. Packages are code in Nix and Guix.
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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by dhj on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:06AM (#10278197)
Sounds like a security nightmare.
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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by kryptiskt on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:13AM (#10278251)
How so? A Debian package can run arbitrary code as root on install. A Nix script can hardly be unsafer than that.
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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by dhj on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:17AM (#10278268)
Ah. Good point. I expected dpkg to handle data blobs that were allowed to be moved into specific locations. I guess that would make post install configs impossible.
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