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From: | Jonathan Carter |
Subject: | Re: A GNU Distribution |
Date: | Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:01:49 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120329 Icedove/10.0.3 |
On 06/04/2012 19:47, Jason Self wrote:
Richard Stallman<address@hidden> wrote ..Meanwhile, I just read about Nix and it sounds really great. Does it have a downside that isn't obvious?Nix does seem like a great package manager. If I understand it correctly, a system using Nix wouldn't have the usual directories like /bin but I'm sure that programs with hardcoded paths could be fixed. Anyone else?
I would just like to chime in and point out that Debian already maintains a (very) large collection of binary packages that run on the Hurd:
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ Probably a good idea to take their work into account as well :) -Jonathan
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