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Re:GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released by agumonkey on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:37PM (#15882270)
I see, lots of work to be done. My question was mostly about the derivation idea (much like a lambda) that would be confusing for people not used to this style.

Also, this popped on twitter https://github.com/Gabriel439/slides/blob/master/nix-interna...

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Re:GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released by thomastjeffery on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:48PM (#15882351)
The derivation idea isn't too difficult to understand, because it is rather elegant.

The problem with derivations is that they are like a library without a reference

The functions that are to be used in derivations aren't documented clearly, at all, or in an obvious place.

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