On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Felipe Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Why not create a new build system with a state of the art programming > > > language, and an advanced DSL that actually other distributions could > > > use? > > > > > > I would like to hear your opinions on this matter. > > > > Take a look at Nix. It's a distribution-agnostic package manager that > > uses a purely functional DSL for package specifications. > > http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html > > That's exactly what I'm taking about :) I'll try it out. Thanks for > sharing the link. > > Is there any interest in the Gentoo community to migrate to Nix? >
This is not going to happen. "Migrating to Nix" means "rewriting the distro from scratch". If you´re interested in a distro built on top of Nix, you can try NixOS (which looks really nice IMO). Regards, Santiago -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ���^�X��� ��(��&j)b� b�
