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Re:Running Docker in production for 6 months by atemerev on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:09AM (#12930215)
NixOS is a whole another can of worms. Nix-env conflicting with system profile, lagging Python packages, etc etc.
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Re:Running Docker in production for 6 months by k__ on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:16AM (#12930270)
Not a Python dev, so I don't know about that.

But could you elaborate on the "Nix-env conflicting with system profile" thing? :)

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Re:Running Docker in production for 6 months by atemerev on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:26AM (#12930335)
This, for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18778

I support the idea of declarative configuration and dependencies, but I also realize that this is a very very hard thing to do, when each language have its own preferred package manager and they all expect a mutable environment.

(I tried NixOS for 2 months and switched back to Ubuntu. The issues are too numerous so far, despite heroic work of NixOS dev team)

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