On 1 May 2015, at 09:42, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's a shame every distribution package manager needs to duplicate the > language-specific packaging. opam already puts each program in its own > folder (mostly), allows switching and doesn't grant root privileges to > installed software. Would be good to be able to convert opam packages > to nix automatically (and also to 0install, which has the same > properties again).
There is a movement towards making this auto-translation possible. The depext metadata in OPAM is getting richer, and Edwin Torok posted an interesting plan on [email protected] a month or so ago. If anyone's interested in an OPAM<->Nix translation, it's a good time to sketch out a design and make sure there are no gotchas. -anil _______________________________________________ MirageOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mirageos-devel
