Nix: An idea whose time has come

Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by Ericson2314 on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:31PM (#30393166)

The major problem here is the lack of dialogue between language-specific package managers and distro package managers.

I think once that is fixed, a lot of stuff will start improving.

I wrote https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109/ in hopes Nix can help lead the way here.

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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by AlphaSite on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:40PM (#30393247)

If this were true Mac and Windows wouldn’t thrive, but they do just fine without a system level package manager at all.

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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by nick__m on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:30PM (#30393894)

Windows now has a first-party package manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

It positively surprised me when I did `sudo winget upgrade` (I first did `winget install gerardog.gsudo` in an admin prompt) and it detected and upgraded the majority of the already installed OSS on my Windows workstation.

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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by Ericson2314 on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:02PM (#30393396)

Err i was trying to answer

> What I'm against is the general fragmentation of Linux that makes interoperability between distro's and window managers problematic.

I disagree that downloading software being hard is a major impediment. (though I realize the parent did continue to claim that.) How many people download executables on the regular anyways?

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