Re:Nix 1.0 released: purely functional linux package manager
by thurn on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:52PM
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It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that "purely functional" means "consisting of pure functions". Why not just say "functional" if that's what is meant?
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Re:Nix 1.0 released: purely functional linux package manager
by 9mit3t2m9h9a on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:41AM
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The aim of Nix is to make function from dependencies to resulting packages a pure function. Nix seems to have achieved it with respect to set of packages installed on a system; the most problematic thing now is that some packages manage to detect CPU version at build time... Fortunately, most of them allow to disable this feature.