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Re:How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect by viraptor on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:33AM (#31143402)
> It is like Ansible or Terraform for a semi-idempotent distro

"Like" does a lot of work here. Those systems go one way: what if we applied this concept to managing existing systems. Nix goes the other: what if we built a system around this concept. I think that's a nice elevator pitch, but misses a lot otherwise.

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Re:How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect by encryptluks2 on Sunday April 24, 2022 @02:56PM (#31147059)
> Nix goes the other: what if we built a system around this concept.

This is what I'm referring to. There isn't anything currently as far as I'm aware that takes it as far as Nix. Sure, Arch has archinstall and there is also cloud-init.

There are examples of using JSON to help manage that:

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/blob/master/example...

But, ultimately I believe a lightweight Go/Rust tool that takes a YAML file and does essentially the same thing will prevail.

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Re:How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect by jbboehr on Sunday April 24, 2022 @06:48PM (#31148996)
But it seems like everything that uses YAML has to reinvent programming languages in YAML, and YAML has it's own share of footguns. At least Nix is designed for it's purpose.
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