Am 10.08.2016 um 00:29 schrieb Arnold Krille:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:54:10 +0100 Luca Bruno <lethalma...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Except that the existing world and software is not reproducible and
>> revertable.
> [...]
> Thanks to Nixos I can set my server back to the system configuration
> from four months back. Apart from the user data of course.

<philosophical>

Systems management always decomposes into congruent, convergent and divergent
realms. The aim of Nix (as I understand it) is to grow the congruent realm. Of
course, the other realms won't go away.

For those interested, I've written a blog post some months ago which explains
these realms and how they relate to NixOS:

https://blog.flyingcircus.io/2016/05/06/thoughts-on-systems-management-methods/

</philosophical>

HTH

Christian

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