From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48159F2E.4050609@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ap6iau0.fsf@nitai.hr>
Gour wrote:
>>>>>> "Taco" == Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> writes:
>
> Taco> If it has .dev or .rpm (or an import function thereof) you could
> Taco> use Norberts packages instead of the 'upstream' releases?
>
> No it uses source deployment, although it's possible to use binaries as
> well.
>
> NixOS puts all the build packages in separate folder and does not use
> standard /usr /lib /lib etc. folders, but one is assured that build deps
> are always correct, as well as ability to e.g. have multiple versions of
> some libs, atomic updates, easy to rollback to some previous
> 'generation'...see
> http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-0.11/manual/#sec-profiles
It sounds intriguing, but I have no time to look into it.
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 7:12 Gour
2008-04-28 7:38 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-28 9:32 ` Gour
2008-04-28 9:55 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2008-04-28 12:12 ` Gour
2008-05-02 9:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-05-05 19:01 ` Gour
2008-05-06 8:39 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-05-06 9:02 ` Gour
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