Hail to yee all!
Always looking for alternate OSes (and not only Linuces), I spent some time reading on the site of NixOS.
There are very few chances that anyone here will be interested by NixOS itself —except maybe some concepts, though. It ships systemd and some other crapware. BUT...
They say that they have built their OS "on top of [their] package-manager". (Doesn't it remind a distro whose 4-letter name starts with a V, mmm?) Here is how they put it exactly:
Of course, what would be the use of a package-manager coming… without packages? But that's been taken care of:
And indeed, there is a "nix" package in the AUR. It is flagged "out of date" since 21/11/2019. But as we all know, Arch is systemd… So let's see somewhere else!
Bingo! There are two packages for Nix in the Void repos, namely "nix" and "nix-32bit".
Now, out of curiosity, this question:
Knowing that Arch and NixOS are systemd… But also figuring a package-manager is possibly independant of thisshit crap… Also knowing that the Nix package-collection contains packages for 32-bit… And knowing that Void (which has forced a elogind upgrade without warning its users, ask fungalnet, but so far is still without systemd) provides a package to run Nix on its own OS --and supposedly not to allow the user to break it…
... is it possible (in theory/in practice) to manage one's packages with Nix on Obarun?
And what the heck for, you loco?
Well, I won't answer this question. (And I'm not "loco", just curious, you blasé!)
But YOU can try to make your own opinion consulting this page.
And of course, you are welcome to post this opinion below. :)
Yours
Always looking for alternate OSes (and not only Linuces), I spent some time reading on the site of NixOS.
There are very few chances that anyone here will be interested by NixOS itself —except maybe some concepts, though. It ships systemd and some other crapware. BUT...
They say that they have built their OS "on top of [their] package-manager". (Doesn't it remind a distro whose 4-letter name starts with a V, mmm?) Here is how they put it exactly:
The said Nix package-manager is described as follows:NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.
Nix is supposed to work on potentially any *nix: Linuces, BSDs, Solaris, even macOS! Hence the name?Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.
Of course, what would be the use of a package-manager coming… without packages? But that's been taken care of:
Nixpkgs, the Nix Packages collection, contains thousands of packages, many pre-compiled.
40,000? Not too bad! A bit further on the same page, it's said thatThe Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs) is a set of over 40 000 packages for the Nix package manager, released under a permissive MIT/X11 license.
What means "pretty much any GNU/Linux distribution", this I wonder. As systemd has become a de facto industrial standard (like it or not), do they mean "pretty much any GNU/Linux distribution [with systemd]"?On GNU/Linux, the packages in Nixpkgs are ‘pure’, meaning that they have no dependencies on packages outside of the Nix store. This means that they should work on pretty much any GNU/Linux distribution.
And indeed, there is a "nix" package in the AUR. It is flagged "out of date" since 21/11/2019. But as we all know, Arch is systemd… So let's see somewhere else!
Bingo! There are two packages for Nix in the Void repos, namely "nix" and "nix-32bit".
Now, out of curiosity, this question:
Knowing that Arch and NixOS are systemd… But also figuring a package-manager is possibly independant of this
... is it possible (in theory/in practice) to manage one's packages with Nix on Obarun?
And what the heck for, you loco?
Well, I won't answer this question. (And I'm not "loco", just curious, you blasé!)
But YOU can try to make your own opinion consulting this page.
And of course, you are welcome to post this opinion below. :)
Yours