Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Marc Weber
> gnome I tried once, worked 2-3 days on it without getting close (but that time it was shortly before release 3). Updating kde also took quite a while. So it is a lot of effort. Package sources can be derived from gnome ftp servers easily. Figuring out about dependencies and eventually patching

Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Aristid Breitkreuz
Note that desktop environments other than GNOME have been found easier to package, so Xfce or KDE should actually work pretty well. Am 18.01.2014 14:26 schrieb "Colin Adams" : > OK. Thanks for the warning. I shall have to consider whether or not I am > going to be able to devote enough time to und

Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Colin Adams
OK. Thanks for the warning. I shall have to consider whether or not I am going to be able to devote enough time to undertake this. On 18 January 2014 13:23, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 01/18/2014 12:51 PM, Michael Raskin wrote: > >> Now, Gnome3 is a large complex thing with many parts, and build

Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 01/18/2014 12:51 PM, Michael Raskin wrote: Now, Gnome3 is a large complex thing with many parts, and building it is not easy. So gettting it fully working can take quite some effort. Yes, it should be stressed that right now noone can give any good estimates on how long GNOME 3 might take t

Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Raskin
>What I'm most worried about though is citrix and its critical priority to >you. But that's mostly based on my previous experiences with the linux >citrix client's hideous quality. I had a great deal of trouble just with >Arch linux the last time I used it. If Citrix is a Java application with no

Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Philip Carlsen
Hi there. I can attest that both google chrome (or chromium at least) and the Haskell toolchain is working fine for me, though handling my haskell development and dependencies through nix takes a bit getting used to, though I found it really worthwhile given all the problems with dependencies and

Re: [Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi. On 01/18/2014 10:33 AM, Colin Adams wrote: GNOME 3 GNOME (3) isn't in working state yet, I'm afraid. I don't know GoPanda2 and Eiffel Studio, and grepping finds nothing (so they're not here yet, most likely). The other packages should be fine (out of the box). Vlada smime.p7s Descr

[Nix-dev] Is NixOS a practical proposition for me?

2014-01-18 Thread Colin Adams
NixOS attracts me, but I wonder how much work I would have to do to get the software installed that I normally use. I am a developer, and I'm prepared to invest a certain amount of time (of the order of, say weeks, rather than hours or months) to get things working, but I'd like to know if it's a r