Re:Nix 1.0 released: purely functional linux package manager
by chriseidhof on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:26PM
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It is also about the way packages are specified:
"Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built"
"Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built"
(from the About Nix section on top of the page)