On 01/09/2013 10:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> skribis:Given that nix would support a "last-resort mirror" and given we could convince some instution (e.g. archive.org) to provide such a mirror, the world would be always able to exactly reproduce software installations and we could show our / somebody's grandchildren how we kept ourselves entertained.Given a mirror of every source tarball, you’d still need a working bootloader and kernel (or full NixOS). In practice you also need to take Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS of the same date, because they are largely interdependent. But yes, Nix is definitely forward for software archeology.
Virtual machine image might be the best you can get AFAIK. It's also very possible that binaries take much less space than sources (which have other advantages, OTOH).
I still don't understand why nix, nixos, nixpkgs (and perhaps others) aren't within one repository. It was so in svn and the interdependence not expressed in the VCS can IMO cause problems (although one can synchronize by time of patch creation).
Vlada
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