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Re:My Experience with Nix on OS X by mitchty on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @08:14AM (#11806071)
Sure but its not different/weird. I've used rpm for a long time, using nix was more, oh ok so rpm type flags no big deal.

It is weird mostly due to exposure to other tools. IIRC nix started out over 10 years ago, well before apt or yum became very widely used.

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Re:My Experience with Nix on OS X by nikolay on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @07:02PM (#11810959)
RPM-based distros are not the most popular, though [0]!

[0]: http://distrowatch.com/

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Re:My Experience with Nix on OS X by mitchty on Sunday June 05, 2016 @08:01PM (#11843818)
Sure, now, but was that the case 10 years ago? I'm not arguing its the best choice but more that you need to take into account the age of things. Being exposed to it just now doesn't mean it was created in that situation. I'd say 10 years ago rpm based distributions were the more dominant and emulating rpm was a fine choice.
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