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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by mseebach on Friday November 23, 2012 @04:14PM (#4823698)
I'm not one to declare other people's motivation, but it strikes me as very odd that there isn't a "So, here's what's irreparably wrong with dpkg/apt and rpm/yum".
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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by zem on Friday November 23, 2012 @08:06PM (#4824218)
it's fixing a (real or perceived) problem with nix, not with dpkg or rpm.
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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by mseebach on Saturday November 24, 2012 @07:20AM (#4825171)
Well, there isn't a "So, here's what's wrong with nix" either.
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Re:Introducing GNU Guix by zem on Sunday November 25, 2012 @06:30AM (#4827905)
there kind of is, if you read between the lines - their usp is the scheme interface, which provides a "proper" programming language with which to interact with the packaging system. they don't explicitly call that out as something wrong with nix, but it's clearly what they feel they do better.
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