dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

dependency hell OR it should not be this hard

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Sun Aug 11 11:11:52 IDT 2019


On 11/08/2019 4:42, Ari Becker wrote:
> No, it doesn't have to be that hard. Plugging NixOS:
> https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html which solves this issue by making
> safe rollbacks as easy as rebooting and choosing the previous immutable
> system configuration.

Nixos and the similar Guix indeed disallow any scripts at package install.

>From some anecdotial evidence, at least in some cases this translatest
to more manual changes required by the users in their configuration.

-- Tzafrir



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