From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40737 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:58 +0200 Message-ID: <48159F2E.4050609@elvenkind.com> References: <87r6cqsbar.fsf@nitai.hr> <48157EE9.5090000@elvenkind.com> <873ap6iau0.fsf@nitai.hr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209376643 17366 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2008 09:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:57:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 28 11:57:58 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JqQ7S-0007bL-67 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:57:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61BF1FB98; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:57:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03201-04-2; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CAF21FBA8; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263CB1FB29 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04136-01-4 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tullamore.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D4B1FBA8 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by tullamore.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C353050286 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:55:59 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) In-Reply-To: <873ap6iau0.fsf@nitai.hr> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40737 Archived-At: Gour wrote: >>>>>> "Taco" == Taco Hoekwater 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________