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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by Ericson2314 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:32PM (#22023514)
I have been interested in finding BSD users who are interested in https://nixos.org/nix/ or even a NixOS/kBSD. It solves all these problems and in my view is the continuation of the spirit of the port system.

(The problem with bundling isn't disk space, but composition. Individual applications can compose fine, but libraries can't if they link other libraries at different versions, and use those library's types (ABI) in their own interface (ABI). To solve this problem you need to distinguish between public vs private dependencies in your package manager.)

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:00AM (#22025265)
> a NixOS/kBSD

Oh good, I'm not the only one thinking about this:) My last idea was basically "run nix on top of a BSD (replacing the package manager), then make nix package(s) for the base system". Which sounds doable, actually.

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by floatboth on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:18AM (#22025952)
Join #freebsd-nix on freenode. It's quiet here, but it exists.
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