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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by colemickens on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:46PM (#18473621)
There's no reason that they need to come from the developers. I'm maintaining over a dozen packages that build directly from HEAD that are all integrated with my package manager and allows anyone else to leverage my work and get my packages.

Nix is the package manager that does this. It literally does damn near everything that comes out of every HN discussion of package managers, ever, but very few seem to bother investigating it.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:50PM (#18474014)
There's several reasons for that, like it still means building from source, or that nix is basically its own programming language you have to learn.

Also, if I understand how nix works correctly, it still can't create portable applications.

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